> yt while i sympathize with your pov i have to say gogol's dead souls is a flat out plagarism from giacomo di casanova's memoirs. it was planned to be a trilogy but when gogol completed vol 2 he had to face reality and realize that his magnum opus that was going to "save russia" was plagarism and he was incapable of writing an original work so he burned it in the fireplace and then committed suicide. so i don't think it's unfair or inaccurate to say that dead souls was a "bad russian novel".
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