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The novel "Dead Souls" was originally conceived as a poem in 3 parts, based on Dante's Divine Comedy divided into three parts: hell, purgatory and paradise, but he wrote only one, published in 1842, and 5 fragments of the second part.
A satirical search for hidden treasure in post-revolutionary Russia. Former nobleman Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov and con artist Ostap Bender chase after valuables, exposing the greed and absurdities of Soviet society.
Behind the ironic-humorous style with which he portrays Hugh Person, the hero of the novel, Nabokov weaves a serious human drama.
The novel is set in a Cossack community on the Don River during collectivization in the Soviet Union. The work, divided into two parts, follows the dramatic changes in the village of Gremyachi Log as the Bolsheviks introduce collective farms, which provok