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Rita Giuliani
Rita Giuliani, Full Professor of Russian Language and Literature at “Sapienza” University in Rome, Editor-in-chief of the International Journal “Russica Romana. Rivista Internazionale di Studi Russistici”, President of “The Pavel Muratov International Centre of Studies”.
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Abstract:
In its form, this paper is a detailed review of Volume 7 of N. Gogol’s “Complete Works in 23 Volumes”, which includes Gogol’s “main” work “Dead Souls”. In addition to discussing this particular volume and the complexity of its textual preparation (implemented by Y. Mann and I. Zaitseva) and in-depth commentary, the author analyses the very principle of the new academic Complete Works that were initiated by S. Bocharov and Y. Mann. The latter served as their editor-in-chief for twenty years. This unprecedented edition, devoid of partiality and striving for the accurate and verified use of sources to give the reader the best possible idea of the writer’s oeuvre and its diverse interpretations, may be called a triumph of true philology. Although many have spoken of the latter’s disappearance, it clearly manifests itself in the publications of Y. Mann and in the “Complete Works and Letters of N. Gogol in 23 Volumes”.