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The grotesque images of Kifa Mokiyevich and Mokiy Kifovich help to look at the characters of the novel from every possible side, not from one side only that shows them as small-minded and worthles people. This characteristic of the Russian mind is the one with which Gogol connects the great destiny of Russia. At the end of his first volume the author resorts to the allegorical form of a parable that plays a key role in the perception of the novel. The more generalized form they take, the more they resemble the traditional folk and poetic formulas.

Vladimir Alekseevich Voropaev Full Text Available The article studies the function of Russian folk speech and its evangelical implication in Nikolai Gogol's poetics.

The paper asserts that the proverbial method of generalization is one of the most significant principles of typification in Gogol's novel Dead Souls. Kaalulangus magus kohtleb author expresses the essence of this or that phenomenon, a situation or a human type using imaginative pictures and traits of characters. The more generalized form they take, the more they resemble the traditional folk and poetic formulas.

This characteristic of the Russian mind is the one with which Gogol connects the great destiny of Russia. At the end of his first volume the author resorts to the allegorical form of a parable that plays a key role in the perception of the novel.

The grotesque images of Kifa Mokiyevich and Mokiy Kifovich help to look at the characters of the novel from every possible side, not from one side only that shows them as small-minded and worthles people. Sobakevich's powerful physique and pragmatism, Plushkin's thrift, Manilov's meditativeness and cordiality, as well as Nozdryov's valor and energy are not bad qualities at all and do not deserve condemnation.

However, all of them as Gogol used to say are carried to extremes and take perverse and exaggerated forms.