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Taras Bulba and Other Tales

By: Nikolai Gogol
Narrated by: Allan Monteiro
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Nikolai Gogol was one of the first to use the technique of the grotesque. According to Viktor Shklovsky, Gogol's strange style of writing resembles the "ostranenie" technique of defamiliarization. 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). The novel Taras Bulba (1835), the play Marriage (1842), and the short stories "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich", "The Portrait" and "The Carriage", are also among his best-known works.

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An introduction to the variety of Gogol!s work; from Taras Balba, a traditional tribal saga along mediaeval lines, to some remarkably thiughtful morality tails about art and life.

My only reservation is that the reader mis-pronounces some words that an American reader might not wuite be able to work out: ‘conFLAGGeration’ etc. this shouldn’t spoil anyone’s rnjoyment, and it’s goid value.

A useful introduction.

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