Lectures on Russian Literature
Contributors: Fredson Bowers (Other Contributor)
Publisher: Harcourt
Published: January 1981
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780151495993
First sentence: Socially minded Russian critics saw in Dead Souls and in The Government Inspector a condemnation of the social poshlust emanating from serf-owning bureaucratic provincial Russia and thus missed the true point.