He wants his sons to be blooded in battle, to learn what it truly means to be a Cossack. But hanging around drinking and playing is not enough for Taras Bulba. He takes them to the Setch, to learn to be warriors and work the academic polish off of them. We meet Taras Bulba when his two young adult sons come home from school. It is sad and joyous like one of those Ukrainian songs which have helped to inspire him to write it." Gogol has written in “Taras Bulba” his own reproach to the nineteenth century. "An understanding of Gogol’s point of view gives the key to “Taras Bulba.” For in this panoramic canvas of the Setch, the military brotherhood of the Cossacks, living under open skies, picturesquely and heroically, he has drawn a picture of his romantic ideal, which if far from perfect at any rate seemed to him preferable to the grey tedium of a city peopled with government officials. However, I also watched the trailer for that movie, so while reading I was able to picture Brynner as Taras and Tony Curtis as his son Andrii. I vaguely remembered seeing the film that starred Yul Brynner as Taras Bulba, but I learned at Wiki that the movie was very different from the story. So I went to Project Gutenberg and chose this book.
I have read one title by this author and remembered that I had intended to read more some day.
I came across the name Gogol a few weeks ago while reading a book about Ukraine. I will come back someday and finish the book properly, so this review is only for Taras Bulba, not for the entire book. But I am not in the mood for the rest of them. I have finished Tara Bulba, the first of six stories in this collection by Nikolai Gogol.
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