N.v. Gogol – författare

I 1600-talets Polen rasar de blodiga kosackupproren och Taras Bulba och hans familj tar del i striden på kosackernas sida. Det han inte vet är att hans ena son, Andrij, har gått över på den polska kronans sida. Under ett stort slag kommer så far och son att stå öga mot öga. Gogol, som själv var historiker, utgick från ögonvittnesskildringar av upproret som skakade Polen när han skrev Taras Bulba. Det är en historisk roman om familjeband, strid och hämnd som tillhör Gogols mest kända verk. I originalöversättning av Jarl Hemmer Nikolaj Gogol (1809-1852) var en unkrainskfödd rysk författare. Han var en mästare i det korta formatet, och är känd för kortromanen Taras Bulba och noveller som Näsan och Kappan. Han betraktas som en av de största skildrarna av sin samtid, och hans verk läses än idag över hela världen. -

Since the school day, we remember the beginning of the story of Nikolai Gogol "Taras Bulba": "And turn around, son!" What a funny man you are! What is this about you for the priest''s cassocks? And so they all go to the academy? - these words were met by the old Bulba of his two sons, who studied in the Kiev bursa and came home to their father. After studying the Cossack chronicles, folk songs and legends about the brave Cossacks and creatively reinterpreting them, Nikolai Gogol wrote a remarkable tale of what is important at all times: love and betrayal, duty and honor, respect for one''s native land and readiness to give up life for it. In addition to the story of Nikolai Gogol "Taras Bulba", in our electronic library download and read also his books "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka", "Viy", "Notes of a Madman" and others.

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