Complex sentence: The title refers to Joy Division's song "Dead Souls" and to the 1842 Nikolai Gogol novel "Dead Souls", quotes from which appear at the beginnings of the two parts of the book.
Split into simpler sentences: The title refers to Joy Division's song "Dead Souls". However, the title "Dead Souls" was first applied to a novel by Nikolai Gogol, quotes from which appear at the beginnings of the two parts of the book.