A story of a sixth-class civil servant begging to sell dead souls. Chikov spent more than a week, when he came to a city, he got through the official relationship from the governor to the construction technician, and then went to the suburbs to buy the serfs who had died but did not cancel their accounts, and prepared to mortgage them to the supervision Committee as living serfs to defraud large deposits.

He visited one landlord after another and bought a lot of dead souls after fierce bargaining. When he happily completed the legal transaction formalities quickly with the relationship he had opened, his evil deeds were exposed, and the prosecutor was scared to death by rumors and had to flee hastily for help.

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The influence of the work

The publication of "Dead Soul" shocked the whole of Russia. In the author's sharp pen, the tragic situation of all kinds of greedy and ignorant landlords, corrupt officials and serfs was exposed incisively and vividly.

Therefore, with its profound ideological content, distinctive critical tendency and great artistic strength, it has become a masterpiece of Russian critical realism literature and a model of Russian literature and world literary satire.

In Russian literature, Dead Soul is the first model of realistic novels. When this statement came out, it immediately caused a heated discussion. It shows the social outlook of Russia at that time with seemingly absurd stories. Both herzen and belinsky gave the highest evaluation to Dead Soul, and Nikolai Nikolai Gogol was regarded as the founder of naturalism.

The appearance of Dead Soul is a great event in Russian literature. Herzen once recalled that the publication of the novel "shook the whole Russia" and was selected as the "Personal Ideal Collection" recommended by the French magazine Reading.

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