Nikolai Gogol

Taras Bulba (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

"Taras Bulba" by Nikolai Gogol is a historical novella set in 16th-century Ukraine. It follows the exploits of the Cossack warrior Taras Bulba and his two sons, Andriy and Ostap. The narrative unfolds against the backdrop of a fierce conflict between the Cossacks and Poland. Taras Bulba's loyalty to his homeland and his desire for vengeance drive the story, leading to tragic consequences for his family. Gogol's work explores themes of patriotism, loyalty, and the clash of cultures, offering a vivid portrayal of the Cossack way of life and the struggles of the Ukrainian people.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Max Bollinger
• Seitenzahl: 122
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781910150481
• Artikelnr.: 56816824

Autorenporträt

Peter Constantine was awarded the 1998 PEN Translation Award for Six Early Stories by Thomas Mann and the 1999 National Translation Award for The Undiscovered Chekhov: Forty-Three New Stories, and has been widely acclaimed for his recent translation of the complete works of Isaac Babel. His translations of fiction and poetry have also appeared in The New Yorker , Harper’s, Grand Street, Paris Review, Fiction, Harvard Magazine, Partisan Review, and London Magazine, among others. He lives in New York City. Robert D. Kaplan is the bestselling author of twenty books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including Adriatic, The Good American, The Revenge of Geography, Asia’s Cauldron, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts. He holds the Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. For three decades he reported on foreign affairs for The Atlantic. He was a member of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board and the U.S. Navy’s Executive Panel. Foreign Policy magazine twice named him one of the world’s “Top 100 Global Thinkers.”