La temporalità nel poema di Nikolay Gogol' "Anime morte"

The purpose of this research is to analyze the various aspects of temporality in the poem of Gogol' "Dead Souls", both through the study of the figures of the time (the history, calendar, clock, etc..) and structures (action time and time of reading) and with the support of important studies carried out by formalists and later. The attention paid to probe the temporal dimension in its various coordinates led to finding some sort of collaboration of the latter. It seems that variants of temporality in the poem of Gogol', far from a condition of irrelevance that critics tend to look for this dimension, all move in the same direction, slows down, nullifying the existence and expanding. A feeling that is undoubtedly represented by the single moment petrified (the real protagonist of the poem time) where the condition of invalidity of the main characters appear in all its tragic expression.