Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

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Episodes 27

Avg. Duration 32m

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Since Dec 2025

Latest Episode Jan 2026

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Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer, was first published in 1842, and is one of the most prominent works of 19th-century Russian literature. Gogol himself saw it as an “epic poem in prose”, and within the book as a “novel in verse”. Despite supposedly completing the trilogy’s second part, Gogol destroyed it shortly before his death. Although the novel ends in mid-sentence (like Sterne’s Sentimental Journey), it is usually regarded as complete in the extant form. In Russia before the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, landowners were entitled to own serfs to farm their land. Serfs were for most purposes considered the property of the landowner, and could be bought, sold, or mortgaged against, as any other chattel. To count serfs (and people in general), the measure word “soul” was used: e.g., “six souls of serfs”. The plot of the novel relies on “dead souls” (i.e., “dead serfs”) which are still accounted for in property registers. On another level, the title refers to the “dead souls” of Gogol’s characters, all of which visualise different aspects of poshlost (an untranslatable Russian word which is perhaps best rendered as “self-satisfied inferiority”, moral and spiritual, with overtones of middle-class pretentiousness, fake significance, and philistinism).

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00 – Introduction by John Cournos, and Author’s Preface

Jan 02, 2026 25m

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01 – Part I, Chapter I

Jan 01, 2026 37m

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02 – Part I, Chapter II – Section 1

Dec 31, 2025 25m

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03 – Part I, Chapter II – Section 2

Dec 30, 2025 38m

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04 – Part 1, Chapter III – Section 1

Dec 29, 2025 29m

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05 – Part 1, Chapter III – Section 2

Dec 28, 2025 28m

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06 – Part I, Chapter IV – Section 1

Dec 27, 2025 29m

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07 – Part I, Chapter IV – Section 2

Dec 26, 2025 39m

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08 – Part I, Chapter V – Section 1

Dec 25, 2025 23m

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09 – Part I, Chapter V – Section 2

Dec 24, 2025 38m

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10 – Part I, Chapter VI

Dec 23, 2025 34m

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11 – Part I, Chapter VII – Section 1

Dec 22, 2025 17m

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12 – Part I, Chapter VII – Section 2

Dec 21, 2025 30m

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13 – Part I, Chapter VIII

Dec 20, 2025 42m

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14 – Part I, Chapter IX

Dec 19, 2025 26m

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15 – Part I, Chapter X

Dec 18, 2025 29m

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16 – Part I, Chapter XI – Section 1

Dec 17, 2025 44m

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17 – Part I, Chapter XI – Section 2

Dec 16, 2025 40m

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18 – Part II, Chapter I – Section 1

Dec 15, 2025 38m

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19 – Part II, Chapter I – Section 2

Dec 14, 2025 33m

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