- Hardcover: 432 pages
- Publisher: Everyman Ltd (Jun 1977)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0460007408
- ISBN-13: 978-0460007405
- Product Dimensions: 50.8 x 50.8 x 50.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,291,708 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Tara Bulba- Cossack Glory
1 Jun 2003
Format:Hardcover
I read this book in my youth and loved it then. Revisiting it hasn't diminished the richness of its style or the quality of its impact. I love it still. Taras Bulba captures the wildness of spirit of the Cossacks and their role in the early Russia. It shows the magnificence of the qualities of love, loyalty and bravery. It also shows the opposite side of the human psyche mainly cruelty and despair in the face of overwhelming force.
There are always two values in Russian literature and music a high booming note and a low resonating note. This triumph of Gogol exhibits both in true Russian style. In a way this illuminates the components of Russian character.
It is by no means easy critiquing a work by the great Gogol but to advise readers to sample this great work I feel is a duty and a privilege.
By all means read this book, it goes to the heart of the Cossack and Russian soul. It will answer the basic question about the Russian people's love of motherland which has echoed throughout Russian history.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Some Errors But Not Bad
18 Jan 2008
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I bought this book to read Taras Bulba having become curious about the story from its adaptation into music by Leos Janacek. Taras makes up the majority of the book at 122 pages (from 285) and although I did not give much thought to the other stories in the book they are masterly and a joy to read. I was quite unprepared for the satanic rites of St. John's Eve and the character study of The Cloak is very good. How The Two Ivans Quarreled is a comic story about an imagined insult that goes way beyond an argument. The Mysterious Portrait is a supernatural story about a painting of an old man that appears to be incredibly life-like and The Calash.
There is an introduction by John Cornos who provides a bibliography of other editions of Gogol's writings but it is a mystery as to who has translated the stories in this edition. The language is good and the stories read well but there are occasional misspelling (for example Ha for Has) and there are footnotes that are difficult to read because the letters overlap. There also are pages where one line will go over the margin. Despite the errors, this edition of Gogol is not bad and the mistakes are not excessive but one does wonder if anyone proof read the book and just did not care.
There is an introduction by John Cornos who provides a bibliography of other editions of Gogol's writings but it is a mystery as to who has translated the stories in this edition. The language is good and the stories read well but there are occasional misspelling (for example Ha for Has) and there are footnotes that are difficult to read because the letters overlap. There also are pages where one line will go over the margin. Despite the errors, this edition of Gogol is not bad and the mistakes are not excessive but one does wonder if anyone proof read the book and just did not care.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Marauders
12 Nov 2003
Format:Paperback
The Bulbas were an old Cossack family. Ostap and Andrei, sons of Taras Bulba, attended the Kiev Seminary. Taras leads his sons to the Cossack encampment for them to become warriors. It is sort of their fate. The headman says he has promised the sultan there would be no war. Taras arranges for the election of a new headman. Soon all of southwest Poland is prey to a fear that the Cossacks are coming.
It is wonderful to enter into the minds and intentions of the marauders. The Cossacks had been inflamed to be warlike under reports of other religious groups failing to respect Eastern Orthodoxy.
Andrei runs into the servant of a woman he saw and fell in love with at the Seminary and becomes concerned that she is starving and that the harsh rations of his group are unsuitable fare for her. The sight of peopole starving is awful to Andrei. In the girl's presence, Andrei feels uncouth. He has spent his life in the Seminary and on the steppes.
The Cossacks are beseiging the city. Suddenly an army breaks through and Andrei is lost to Taras and the others. It is reported that Andrei has gone over to the other side under his own free will.
Ostrap Bulba is elected a chief. Part of the Cossack forces follow the Tartars out of the city to retrieve their prisoners, and the rest remain in the vicinity of the city for the same purpose, to retrieve the Cossack prisoners taken by the Poles. Ostap and Taras stay to confront the Poles. They are surprised to encounter Andrei. Taras kills Andrei.
Ostap is taken prisoner and transported to Warsaw. Taras seeks out Yankel to hide him and take him to Warsaw. Through the arrogant will of the Polish aristocracy, the captured Cossacks are tortured, Ostap included. Taras is a witness to the scene.
A Cossack Army 120,000 strong is massed on the border of the Ukraine. Among all the regiments, the crack regiment is led by Taras Bulba. The Russian Orthodox clergy go out to meet the Cossacks. Taras's exploits go well beyond ordinary raids.
The story is colorful and excellent.
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