N. GOGOL’S NOVEL DEAD SOULS IN CHINESE LITERARY STUDIES

Abstract

The article provides an overview of the study of Gogol’s novel Dead Souls in the literary studies in China, traces the state of the study of the novel Dead Souls in different periods, presents relevant research findings in Chinese criticism, and summarizes the main directions of research in the field of Chinese literary criticism. The significance of this work lies in the fact that there are only a small number of publications that provide the history and approaches to the study of the novel Dead Souls in Chinese literary criticism. It could be argued that considerable attention is paid in Chinese literary studies to the study of character images, artistic features, genre poetics, comparative analysis, etc., which will create prerequisites for further research of this work in the literary studies of China and Russia.