上个世纪五十年代曾读过果戈理的《死魂灵》(第一部),很为作家高超的讽刺艺术所吸引。一个八等小文官乞乞科夫,为了发财和骗钱,竟借十年才一次的人口普查空隙,在一些地主庄园已死亡的农奴尚未注销的情况下,把这些法律上还认为是“活人”的死农奴购买来,作为抵押品,再去骗取大量钱财。他最后竟成了有四百农奴的大庄园主,但却被人揭穿仓皇而逃。 The “Dead Spirit” (Part One), which had been read by Gogol in the 1950s, is very much attracted to the superb satirical art of the writer. In order to make a fortune and get money, a census gap of only once in a decade was found in some civil servants who had died in landowners’ estate, but they were still regarded as “ Living Man ”to buy the dead serfs, as collateral, and then to defraud a lot of money. He eventually became a large manor with 400 serfs, but he was run away in panic.