Dead Souls. Gogol N.V.

“All Rus' will appear in it,” Gogol said about his future novel “Dead Souls”, later named by him with a poem. The plot “donated” by Pushkin gave the basis for the adventurous-Plutovsky novel, but the traditional genre could not accommodate all the wealth of the Gogol’s idea. The definition of a prosaic work as a poem is not by chance - the image of Rus' created by the writer, a three bird created by the writer. “Rus', where are you rushing? Give an answer. Does not give an answer... "