Let's remember this: Gogol in Dead Souls was looking for such a combination of darkness and light that the pictures he created would not horrify a person, but give hope.īut where is the light in his paintings? It seems that if he exists, it is only in lyrical digressions - about the healing endless road, about fast driving, about Russia, which rushes like a 'brisk, unbeatable troika.' So something like that, but it has long been noticed that none other than Chichikov wanders along these roads, and almost in his head a reasoning imbued with lyrical pathos is born. Since then, I have already begun to think only about how to soften the painful impression that 'Dead Souls' could make. Pushkin, who knew Russia so well, did not notice that all this was a caricature and my own invention! It was then that I saw what a matter taken from the soul means, and in general spiritual truth, and in what a terrifying form for a person darkness and a frightening absence of light can be presented. When the reading was over, he said in a voice of anguish: 'God, how sad is our Russia.' It amazed me. and gloomier, and finally became completely gloomy. He himself spoke about this: “When I began to read the first chapters of Dead Souls to Pushkin in the form in which they were before, Pushkin, who always laughed when I read (he was a hunter of laughter), began to gradually become more and more gloomy. Soon Gogol read the first chapters of the poem to Pushkin. Gogol spoke about this in The Author's Confession: “Pushkin gave me his own plot, from which he wanted to make himself something like a poem and which, according to him, he would not give to anyone else. Pushkin gave Gogol the plot of Dead Souls. 'Dead Souls' is closely associated with the name of Pushkin and was created under his influence.

By 1851 he finished a new version of the volume - and burned it on February 11, 1852, shortly before his death.

In 1845 he burned the finished text for the first time. The writer worked on the second volume from 1840-1852. The first volume was created in 1835-1841 and was published in 1842. The history of its creation covers almost the entire creative life of the writer.

It was on him that Gogol pinned his main hopes. 'Dead Souls' - a brilliant work of Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol. Gogol of the Dead Souls genreġ.3 Genre originality of the poem 'Dead Souls'Ģ Conclusions on the genre originality of 'Dead Souls' Gogol 'Dead Souls'ġ.1 The meaning of the title of the poem 'Dead Souls'ġ.2 Definition of N.V.

The meaning of the name and originality of the genre of the poem by N.V.

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