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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

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Author

Nikolai Gogol; a new translation by Peter Constantine, introduction by Robert D. Kaplan

Publisher

New York: Modern Library

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679642558

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.2 / 5 (134 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14