Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Taras Bulba und andere Erzählungen
Für wen es gedacht ist
Readers who love Cossack adventure, ghost stories told by the stove and comic tales of petty officials will find all three here, along with sharp satire and warm, vivid storytelling.
Worum es in diesem Buch geht
Nikolai Gogol wrote the tales gathered here in the 1830s and early 1840s, and together they show his two worlds. Gogol was born in Ukraine and wrote in Russian, and he loved both the folk songs of his homeland and the gray offices of the capital. One world is the wild Ukrainian steppe, with its Cossacks, witches and village storytellers. The other is St. Petersburg, with its clerks, painters and rumors. The title story, Taras Bulba, is a short epic of war and family. The rest are shorter and stranger.
You meet an old Cossack who hauls his sons off to war, a devil who tempts a farmhand with a magic flower, a clerk who saves for months to buy an overcoat, two friends who sue each other over an insult, a painter whose talent drains away, and a vain landowner who hides in his own carriage. Gogol makes you laugh, shudder and ache, sometimes within a single page.
This summary walks you through each tale in turn, saying what happens and what it means, without giving away the endings. Along the way you will hear the voices Gogol invents, from a gossiping sacristan to a teasing narrator who admires his own heroes. Start with the Cossack camp on the Dnieper, where a father's stubborn pride sets the whole story moving.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1A father hurries his sons toward warFree
- 2Rage against Poland and a bread-carrying secret
- 3Brotherhood outweighs every other bond
- 4A wounded father risks everything in Warsaw
- 5A devil's gold buys a lover and costs a soul
- 6A poor copyist loses what little he has
- 7Two best friends sue over a gun and a goose
- 8A cursed portrait follows a painter's ambition
- 9A boastful host, a calash, and Gogol's voices
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A father hurries his sons toward war
Old Bulba greets his two sons, Ostap and Andrii, home from the seminary at Kief, by laughing at the long gowns they wear. When Ostap warns him not to laugh, the old man rolls up his sleeves and the two trade punches in the yard. Taras is delighted that his son can fight, and calls him a future Cossack.
Their pale, kind mother can only watch and weep. Taras tells the boys that books and philosophy are rubbish, that a sword is the only mother a Cossack needs, and that he will take them to Zaporozhe within the week. When she cries, he decides to leave the very next morning, and he knocks over the pots in the hut to show what a house means to him.
The tale places him in the fifteenth century, when Mongol raiders had burned the south and Polish kings ruled from far away. Out of that danger grew the Cossacks, free horsemen along the Dnieper who left their trades and rode to war within a week of a call. Taras belongs to the old school. He hates the Polish airs spreading among Russian nobles, and he guards the Orthodox faith with his sword.
That night the mother sits over her sleeping sons, combing their hair and weeping. She has seen her husband two or three days a year, and all her love has turned to her children. At dawn the sons come out in red boots, trousers as wide as the Black Sea, and scarlet jackets. She clings to the younger one's stirrup, is carried inside, and then runs to the gate to embrace him once more.
The ride across the green steppe ends at Khortitz Island, where the Setch, the Cossack camp, stands. The suburb rings with blacksmiths, and a huge Zaporozhetz sleeps in the road like a lion. Dancers pound out the Kosachka while Taras greets old comrades and learns that Borodavka, Koloper and Pidsuitok are dead. Newcomers are asked only whether they believe in Christ, and no woman may enter the camp.
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Questions about Taras Bulba und andere Erzählungen
What is Taras Bulba, and Other Tales about?
It collects Gogol's Cossack epic Taras Bulba with five shorter tales: St. John's Eve, The Cloak, the story of the two Ivans, The Portrait and The Carriage. Together they mix war, folklore, satire and ghostly mystery.
Is Taras Bulba a true story?
No. It is fiction set in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries among the Zaporozhian Cossacks of Ukraine. Gogol draws on real history, Cossack customs and folk songs, but Taras and his sons are invented.
Who are the Zaporozhian Cossacks and what is the Setch?
The Zaporozhtzi were free Cossack warriors living below the Dnieper rapids. The Setch was their fortified camp, where kurens, or troops, lived in turf-covered sheds and elected their chief, the Koschevoi.
Why does Akakiy Akakievitch care so much about a cloak?
Winter in St. Petersburg is bitter, and his thin cloak no longer protects him. Saving for the new one gives his lonely life a goal and a companion, so the garment comes to mean warmth, respect and hope.
Is the book easy to read?
Gogol's tales move briskly, with clear scenes, vivid characters and funny asides. Each story stands on its own, so you can read them one at a time and enjoy a different voice each time.