THE SECOND AND THIRD VOLUMES OF THE DEAD SOULS: PLANS AND CONJECTURES

Occupation: Leading Researcher
Affiliation:
A. M. Gorky Institute of Word Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences
Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskij Dom), Russian Academy of Sciences
Address: Russian Federation,

Journal name

Russkaia literatura

Edition

Pages

41-58

Abstract

The article deals with the most «obscure» issues of the history of the second volume of the Dead Souls, burned thrice, but risen from the ashes, albeit in an earlier, discarded version, as well as with Gogol’s plan to keep on writing the poem in volume three. Based on the documentary data, the history of the rediscovered five chapters of the second volume is reconstructed in detail. The memoirs of Gogol’s contemporaries, who had attended the reading of the completed chapters of the second volume, provide the grounds for the reconstruction of the storylines of the second volume and of the characters that didn’t make their appearance in the five discovered chapters. A separate section is devoted to the problem of the third volume of the Dead Souls, in which the characters were to undergo a spiritual transformation, with the locus moving to Siberia where Chichikov, presumably, formed spiritual ties with the Old Believers — the hypothesis that is put forward in V. Sharov’s novel Return to Egypt.

Keywords

N. V. Gogol, Dead Souls, volumes two and three, Siberia, N. F. Fedorov, V. A. Sharov.

Received

23.11.2022

Publication date

30.11.2022

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64562

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GOST	Dmitrieva E. THE SECOND AND THIRD VOLUMES OF THE DEAD SOULS: PLANS AND CONJECTURES // Russkaia literatura – 2022. – 4 C. 41-58 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/rusliter/s013160950023244-2-1-en (circulation date: 19.03.2025). DOI: 10.31860/0131-6095-2022-4-41-58
MLA	Dmitrieva, Ekaterina "THE SECOND AND THIRD VOLUMES OF THE DEAD SOULS: PLANS AND CONJECTURES." Russkaia literatura 4 (2022):41-58. DOI: 10.31860/0131-6095-2022-4-41-58
APA	Dmitrieva E. (2022). THE SECOND AND THIRD VOLUMES OF THE DEAD SOULS: PLANS AND CONJECTURES. Russkaia literatura (4), pp.41-58 DOI: 10.31860/0131-6095-2022-4-41-58

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