If you want to read Dead Souls, there's a free high quality edition at Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/nikolai-gogol/dead-souls/d... It's a surprisingly funny and brisk read.
I think you would like Dead Souls by Gogol. It has the same kind of biting criticism as the idiot, but it's a bit darker (if I remember right) - not as dark as C&P, but darker than the idiot
…From that list, I would recommend the following to anybody: (Achebe - Things Fall Apart), (Austin - Pride and Prejudice), (Laxness - Independent People), (Marquez - Love in the Time of Cholera), (Gogol - Dead Souls [translation by MacAndrew is the most fun one I've read]), (Twain - Huck Finn). From that list, I would recommend the following only if I knew the person's tastes better: (Cervantes - Don Quixote), (Dostoevsky…
Please also give it a try and read Gogol's "Dead Souls". I don't know how to explain it, but I think is the book that best explains the 20th century (even though it was written in the 1840s). Yes, Gogol was that good.
Fiction? I started contributing to https://standardebooks.org/ and discovered Gogol’s Dead Souls and Strindberg’s The Red Room in the process as new favourite classics.
Dead Souls, absolutely, but also the stories (The Nose and The Overcoat, at a minimum). Gogol is a one-of-a-kind genius. He is one of the funniest writers who ever lived, poignant, and utterly insane in the purest…
如果你想读《死魂灵》，Standard Ebooks 上有个高品质的免费版本：https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/nikolai-gogol/dead-souls/d... 读起来出人意料地有趣且节奏轻快。
If you want to read Dead Souls, there's a free high quality edition at Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/nikolai-gogol/dead-souls/d... It's a surprisingly funny and brisk read.
我觉得你会喜欢果戈理的《死魂灵》。它带有一种像《白痴》一样辛辣的讽刺，但还要更阴暗一点（如果我没记错的话）——虽然没有《罪与罚》那么黑暗，但比《白痴》要阴暗。
I think you would like Dead Souls by Gogol. It has the same kind of biting criticism as the idiot, but it's a bit darker (if I remember right) - not as dark as C&P, but darker than the idiot
……从那个书单里，我会向任何人推荐这几本：（阿契贝 -《瓦解》）、（奥斯汀 -《傲慢与偏见》）、（拉克斯内斯 -《独立的人们》）、（马尔克斯 -《霍乱时期的爱情》）、（果戈理 -《死魂灵》[麦克安德鲁的译本是我读过最有趣的]）、（吐温 -《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》）。从那个书单里，只有在更了解对方口味的情况下我才会推荐：（塞万提斯 -《堂吉诃德》）、（陀思妥耶夫斯基……
…From that list, I would recommend the following to anybody: (Achebe - Things Fall Apart), (Austin - Pride and Prejudice), (Laxness - Independent People), (Marquez - Love in the Time of Cholera), (Gogol - Dead Souls [translation by MacAndrew is the most fun one I've read]), (Twain - Huck Finn). From that list, I would recommend the following only if I knew the person's tastes better: (Cervantes - Don Quixote), (Dostoevsky…
请一定也读读果戈理的《死魂灵》。我不知道该怎么形容，但我觉得它是最能解释 20 世纪的一本书（尽管它写于 19 世纪 40 年代）。没错，果戈理就是这么牛。
Please also give it a try and read Gogol's "Dead Souls". I don't know how to explain it, but I think is the book that best explains the 20th century (even though it was written in the 1840s). Yes, Gogol was that good.
虚构类？我开始给 https://standardebooks.org/ 贡献内容，在此过程中发现了果戈理的《死魂灵》和斯特林堡的《红房间》，成了我的新晋心头好经典。
Fiction? I started contributing to https://standardebooks.org/ and discovered Gogol’s Dead Souls and Strindberg’s The Red Room in the process as new favourite classics.
绝对首推《死魂灵》，但他的短篇小说也必读（至少《鼻子》和《外套》要看）。果戈理是个独一无二的天才。他是有史以来最风趣的作家之一，既心酸深刻，又在最纯粹的意义上极度疯狂……
Dead Souls, absolutely, but also the stories (The Nose and The Overcoat, at a minimum). Gogol is a one-of-a-kind genius. He is one of the funniest writers who ever lived, poignant, and utterly insane in the purest…