Disclosure:I get this edition free of charge from the Providing website of Feedbooks I read in English with a nice quality of writing.My Plot:The Whole story was about the life and the death of a Cossack called Taras Bulba, This personality in fact reveals the true view of GOGOL to this kind of P...
Taras Bulba and Other Tales is a collection of six novellas and stories by Nikolai Gogol, one of the pioneers of the Russian novel during the early 19th century. What's remarkable about this collection is the range of stories – everything from historical epic to ghost stories to stories that focu...
Almost, one and a three quarters of a century ago, Nikolay Vasilyevich Gogol-Yanovsky or simply, Gogol, himself lend words to the cries of dissent against the likes of him,“Don’t we ourselves know that there’s much in life that’s contemptible and stupid? As it is, we often have occasion to see th...
(This review is of the 1972 Penguin edition, often reprinted, and translated by Ronald Wilks.) The first half of the 19th century in Russia produced many great authors (including some of my all-time favorites: Pushkin, Lermontov, Turgenev) but none with more sheer imaginative genius or a greater...
Quanti spunti avrebbe, da noi, oggi L'ispettore generale è la più conosciuta opera teatrale di Gogol' – autore che per inciso noi consideriamo russo, ma che in realtà era ucraino, a dimostrazione della relatività e della inconsistenza di un “ordine mondiale” odierno che per certi versi ci sta rip...