fic post: A Harder Road (Johannes Cabal/Dead Souls)

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A Harder Road
Johannes Cabal / Dead Souls
Rating: gen
Characters: Johannes Cabal, Horst Cabal, Manilov, Dead Souls ensemble
Wordcount: 18000ish
Summary: Johannes and Horst make a brief detour to Russia.

(A pastiche/fusion of Gogol's Dead Souls, set in the early chapters of Johannes Cabal: Necromancer. Will probably make minimal sense if you haven't read both books, but I encourage you to give it a try anyway.)

A/N: Tumblr user tweedymcgee made the observation that I'm writing for increasingly obscure book fandoms. I responded by becoming emotionally invested in a 19th century Russian classic.

Thanks to Nikolai Gogol, whose academic career has been an inspiration as I struggle my way through the last year of graduate school. I read the Donald Rayfield translation of Dead Souls, and use some of its phrasing here.

Dreamwidth is giving me fits with the link for an unknown reason, but you can read it on the AO3: http://archiveofourown.org/works/12634953