Urs Heftrich holds the Chair of Slavic Literatures at the University of Heidelberg. He is the author of four monographs. As an editor and prize-winning translator of Czech and Russian poetry, he has been mediating Slavic Literatures in Germany since 1989.
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction: Of Beauty, Truth, and Evil
Part One: Chichikov's Prehistory
Ethos and Epic
The Ground Plan of Dead Souls
The Ground Plan of Dead Souls Revisited
Part Two: Chichikov's Crime
On Truth and Lies in a Moral Sense
The Five Faces of Lying
In the Shadow Realm of Lies
Part Three: Chichikov's Punishment
Judgment and Rumor
The Five Acts of the Drama
Ethos and Epic: Chichikov's Crime and Punishment
Illustrations
Bibliography
Index