Nikolai Gogol and the Soul of Death.

Nikolai Gogol (1April 8091-1March 4, 852), born in poltava, Ukraine, is a Russian critical writer. He is regarded as the founder of Russian realistic literature, and his representative works include Dead Soul and Imperial Envoy. 1852, he burned the manuscript of the second volume of Dead Soul and died soon after. Nikolai Nikolai Gogol was the most outstanding Russian satirist, the pioneer of satirical literature school and one of the founders of critical realism literature in the first half of19th century. His most famous works are Dead Soul and Imperial Envoy. His friendship and communication with Pushkin is a legendary story in the literary world.

1842, Nikolai Gogol published the novel Dead Soul. Chikov, a "scheming" speculator, came up with a set of tricks to get rich by selling short and taking advantage. He bought the unregistered dead serfs on the serf list at a low price in N city and its surrounding landlord manor, applied to the state for ownerless wasteland under the pretext of immigration, and then mortgaged the obtained land together with the list of dead serfs to the government for profit. The author shows the portrait gallery of Russian landlords from other provinces through the process of visiting the main manor in Chikov. Through the vivid description of the ugly face of the landlord. The author convincingly shows that Russian serfdom has reached the dying stage, which objectively reflects the law of its inevitable demise, due to ideological limitations. Nikolai Gogol didn't point out the way for Russia, but Dead Soul shocked the whole Russia with its "morbid history". Its significance and value lies in the ruthless exposure and criticism of Russian feudal serfdom, which is profound. Nikolai Gogol is the first person in Russian novels, so Dead Soul has always been regarded as the foundation stone of Russian critical realism literature in the19th century.

What impressed me most in "Dead Ghost" was Higgins' splashing water. With Sherlock in Shakespeare's comedy The Merchant of Venice, Abalone in Moliere's comedy The Miser, and Grandet in Balzac's novel Eugenie Grandet, they are called the four immortal misers in European literature.

As a landlord, Poliuxijin is a rich man, but he is morbidly obsessed with his wealth, reluctant to eat, reluctant to wear, and even reluctant to enjoy himself, let alone give it to his children. In addition to being reluctant to spend money, he also developed the habit of stealing. It is described in the book that Higgins' spilled road is cleaner than the cleaned road. Even if it is rubbish, he will try his best to get it as long as it is not his own. In order to save money, he dressed in rags, looked neither male nor female, and ate some rotten food. The morbid and abnormal infatuation with money and wealth made him a distant miser. He is stingy not for pleasure, nor for children, but purely for wealth. Even if the food is rotten and the clothes are worn out, he can't bear to eat or wear them. In his eyes, children, slaves and even himself are not as important as wealth. He was alienated by money and became a slave to it.