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The First New Translation in Forty YearsSet sometime between the mid-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century, Gogol’s epic tale recounts both a bloody Cossack revolt against the Poles (led by the bold Taras Bulba of Ukrainian folk mythology) and the trials of Taras Bulba’s two sons.As Robert Kaplan writes in his Introduction, “[Taras Bulba] has a Kiplingesque gusto . . . that makes it a pleasure to read, but central to its theme is an unredemptive, darkly evil violence that is far beyond anything that Kipling ever touched on. We need more works like Taras Bulba to better understand the emotional wellsprings of the threat we face today in places like the Middle East and Central Asia.” And the critic John Cournos has noted, “A clue to all Russian realism may be found in a Russian critic’s observation about Gogol: ‘Seldom has nature created a man so romantic in bent, yet so masterly in portraying all that is unromantic in life.’ But this statement does not cover the whole ground, for it is easy to see in almost all of Gogol’s work his ‘free Cossack soul’ trying to break through the shell of sordid today like some ancient demon, essentially Dionysian. So that his works, true though they are to our life, are at once a reproach, a protest, and a challenge, ever calling for joy, ancient joy, that is no more with us. And they have all the joy and sadness of the Ukrainian songs he loved so much.”

The First New Translation in Forty YearsSet sometime between the mid-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century, Gogol s epic tale recounts both a bloody Cossack revolt against the Poles (led by the bold Taras Bulba of Ukrainian folk mythology) and the trials of Taras Bulba s two sons.As Robert Kaplan writes in his Introduction, [Taras Bulba] has a Kiplingesque gusto . . . that makes it a pleasure to read, but central to its theme is an unredemptive, darkly evil violence that is far beyond anything that Kipling ever touched on. We need more works like Taras Bulba to better understand the emotional wellsprings of the threat we face today in places like the Middle East and Central Asia. And the critic John Cournos has noted, A clue to all Russian realism may be found in a Russian critic s observation about Gogol: Seldom has nature created a man so romantic in bent, yet so masterly in portraying all that is unromantic in life. But this statement does not cover the whole ground, for it is easy to see in almost all of Gogol s work his free Cossack soul trying to break through the shell of sordid today like some ancient demon, essentially Dionysian. So that his works, true though they are to our life, are at once a reproach, a protest, and a challenge, ever calling for joy, ancient joy, that is no more with us. And they have all the joy and sadness of the Ukrainian songs he loved so much.

The First New Translation in Forty YearsSet sometime between the mid-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century, Gogol’s epic tale recounts both a bloody Cossack revolt against the Poles (led by the bold Taras Bulba of Ukrainian folk mythology) and the trials of Taras Bulba’s two sons.As Robert Kaplan writes in his Introduction, “[Taras Bulba] has a Kiplingesque gusto . . . that makes it a pleasure to read, but central to its theme is an unredemptive, darkly evil violence that is far beyond anything that Kipling ever touched on. We need more works like Taras Bulba to better understand the emotional wellsprings of the threat we face today in places like the Middle East and Central Asia.” And the critic John Cournos has noted, “A clue to all Russian realism may be found in a Russian critic’s observation about Gogol: ‘Seldom has nature created a man so romantic in bent, yet so masterly in portraying all that is unromantic in life.’ But this statement does not cover the whole ground, for it is easy to see in almost all of Gogol’s work his ‘free Cossack soul’ trying to break through the shell of sordid today like some ancient demon, essentially Dionysian. So that his works, true though they are to our life, are at once a reproach, a protest, and a challenge, ever calling for joy, ancient joy, that is no more with us. And they have all the joy and sadness of the Ukrainian songs he loved so much.”

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The pearl of Gogol’s Little Russian novels, is a historical novel, Taras Bulba, which recalls to life one of the most interesting periods in the history of Little Russia–the fifteen century. Constantinople had fallen into the hands of the Turks; and although a mighty Polish-Lithuanian state had grown in the West, the Turks, nevertheless, menaced both Eastern and Middle Europe. Then it was the Little Russians rose for the defense of Russia and Europe. The hero of the novel is an old Cossack, Taras Bulba, who has himself spent many years in the Secha, but is now peacefully settled inland on his farm. His two sons have been educated in the Academy of Kiev and return home after several years of absence. On the very next day after their arrival, without letting the mother enjoy the sight of her sons, Taras takes them to the Secha, which– as often happened in those times– was going to begin war, in consequence of the exactions which the Polish landlords made upon the Little Russians. Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1809-1852) wrote his epic Taras Bulba over a period, broken by intervals, of more than nine years: from 1833 to 1842. The profound ideological message of the tale, its thrilling and truthful characters, Gogol’s colorful portrayal of the people’s life, have immortalized Gogol’s epic.

This Elibron Classics book is a reprint of a 1886 edition by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New York. The title character of this short novel is a Cossack who, along with his two sons, joins his people's war with Poland. Set in the 17th century, the novel depicts the grim fates of the three Bulbas after one of the sons, Andri, deserts the Cossack forces to be with a Polish woman. The novel is particularly noted for its descriptions of the landscape of Gogol's native Ukraine.

Madrid. 20 cm. 207 p. il. col. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Tus libros', numero coleccion(36). Gogol', Nikolaï Vasil'evich 1809-1852. Taras Bul'ba. Traducción del ruso y apéndice,I sabel Vicente ; ilustración, Hugo Figueroa. Bibliografía: p. 207. Vicente, Isabel .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 84-7525-146-3

V nastoiashchem izdanii pechataiutsia povesti N.V. Gogolia, sostavivshie ego sbornik "Mirgorod": "Starosvetskie pomeshchiki", "Taras Bulba", "Vii", "Povest o tom, kak possorilsia Ivan Ivanovich s Ivanom Nikiforovichem". Kak ukazal sam avtor, sbornik "Mirgorod" (1835) stal organichnym prodolzheniem "Vecherov na khutore bliz Dikanki". "Net, proshlo vremechko: ne uvidat bolshe zaporozhtcev!" - vosklitcal odin iz rasskazchikov eshche v "Vecherakh...". eta mysl teper stanovitsia glavnoi: sopostavlenie legendarnogo proshlogo i lishennogo geroizma nastoiashchego - osnova kompozitcii "Mirgoroda". Muzhestvo, nepreklonnaia volia, nediuzhinnaia sila i liubov k otechestvu - cherty istinnykh geroev v "Tarase Bulbe".

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