Chapter 57 Gogol's "Dead Souls"

Gogol's "Dead Souls" Gogol was born on April 1, 1809, and today marks the 150th anniversary of his birth Today, take this opportunity to talk about his "Dead Souls". This great satirical novel has already been translated by Mr. Lu Xun in our country, but it is still close to the translation. Before the translation was finished, the husband had passed away.In fact, Gogol's original work, the second after that, is also an unfinished work. The finished manuscript. Gogol wrote "Dead Souls", which took a total of sixteen years, but it was not finished yet.he

It was in 1835 that I decided to write this novel.It took him six years, and by 1841, Finished the first part.However, in the writing of the second part, the original manuscript was destroyed several times until it was written and stopped. When he died in 1852, he still hadn't finished writing it. Later generations sorted out the incomplete manuscripts he burned, and a total of Four chapters.Mr. Lu Xun's translation, the second part only translates to the third chapter. According to Xu Guangping's recollection, this chapter is The translation was completed in May 1936, but it was shelved due to poor health, and it was published in October of the same year for submission

"Yan Wen" was published, and the translation of this chapter was published in the second issue of the new second volume of "Yan Wen".At the time of publication Mr. passed away.Xu Guangping once said very sentimentally in the postscript to the translation of the complete work "Dead Souls": "By October, Mr. thought his body could handle it, so he resolutely took it After clearing out the translation manuscripts that had been placed under pressure, this is the new second volume of the translation published on October 16 On the second issue.But when the book came out, it was too late for Mr. to read it himself.life is fragile and not

To the paper, this is worthy of sad commemoration, I think readers feel the same way.And Gogol is not finished The second part of the book, Mr. has not completed the translation, it is really unexpected, or It can be regarded as a coincidence. " The first part of Gogol's "Dead Souls" was not written in Russia itself, but abroad of.He began to go abroad in 1836, traveling to Germany, France, Switzerland, and later to Italy. Italy, settled down in Rome, and concentrated on the writing of "Dead Souls".August 1841 Cai Rome, roamed around Germany, returned to Moscow in October, and wrote the last chapters of the first part of this novel

Re-modify.It was not published for the first time until May of the following year. In the summer of 1845 Gogol burned the already written chapters of the second part of his Dead Souls. Before his death, in early February 1852, he rewrote the chapters of the second book again. burnt.As a result, only four chapters remain. Gogol obviously encountered many difficulties in writing the second part of "Dead Souls", so he repeatedly Burn the written manuscript.According to Turgenev's recollection, when he visited Gogol for the first time, he accompanied Hipkin, whom he went to, had repeatedly warned him not to ask Gogol about the sequel to Dead Souls.

Writing, saying he didn't want to talk to anyone about it. The so-called "dead souls" refers to a list of a group of dead serfs, who were listed by the speculator Chichikov Bought it at a low price, and mortgaged it to the bank as a living person together with the land. A dark anecdote.