Biographie de l'auteur :
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (Russian: 1 March [O.S. 19 March] 1809 – 4 March [O.S. 21 February] 1852) was a Russian dramatist, novelist and short story writer.
Considered by his contemporaries one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in Gogol's work a fundamentally romantic sensibility, with strains of Surrealism and the grotesque ("The Nose", "Viy", "The Overcoat," "Nevsky Prospekt"). His early works, such as Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, were influenced by his Ukrainian upbringing, Ukrainian culture and folklore. His later writing satirised political corruption in the Russian Empire (The Government Inspector, Dead Souls), leading to his eventual exile. The novel Taras Bulba (1835) and the play Marriage (1842), along with the short stories "Diary of a Madman", "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich", "The Portrait" and "The Carriage", round out the tally of his best-known works.
Présentation de l'éditeur :
"Taras Bulba" is a tale of the Cossacks, in which the author (himself a descendant from that group) describes the heroic exploits of his ancestors; their wild mode of life and warfare; the scenery the forests, the ponds, the wide stretches, and the sky of the steppes; all of which are woven together in the form of fiction placed before the reader in the most lifelike and vivid prose, which equals in beauty the accents of the noblest poetry.
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