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Dead Souls

Mertvye dushi

textual humanities text book core Lifetime Path planned

Creators

  • Nikolai Gogol, author

Canon Rationale

A core Russian prose work, included for satire, serfdom, bureaucracy, grotesque realism, comic portraiture, and the nineteenth-century novel's social imagination.

Path

Lifetime path, phase 1, rank 106.

Evidence

  • handbook: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 'Dead Souls'.
  • museum record: Project Gutenberg, 'Dead Souls' by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, translated by D. J. Hogarth.

Audit Flags

translation dependency, version dependency

Completion unit: read Part I complete and document translation and unfinished-state context. If reading later fragments or reconstructions, log them as supplemental.

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