A review by kardynalkaszprzak
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

emotional inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

For the 19th century Russian society, the absence of the third part of "Dead Souls" and the incompleteness of the second part was a terrible tragedy (Gogol planned "Dead Souls" to be a three voume book, where throughout all of its parts Chichikov'ld go through hell, purgatory and heaven (as in Dante's "Divine Comedy"), would receive huge personal growth and at the end appear to be a completely different person than at the very beginning of the book. For this reason, the characters in the first part are less deep and ambiguous than in the second, and Chichikov himself shows much more humanity in the second part)
Yeah Chichikov the true Hero of our time