Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ
1) Dead souls
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Gogol hoped to show the world “the untold riches of the Russian soul” in this 1842 novel, which he populated with a Dickensian swarm of characters: rogues and scoundrels, landowners and serfs, conniving petty officials–all of them both utterly lifelike and alarmingly larger than life. Setting everything in motion is the wily antihero, Chichikov, the trafficker in “dead souls”–deceased serfs who still represent profit to those clever enough...
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2021.
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"In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders guides the reader through seven classic Russian short stories he's been teaching for twenty years as a professor in the prestigious Syracuse University graduate MFA creative writing program. Paired with stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, these essays are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it's more relevant than ever in these turbulent times. Saunders approaches...
5) Taras Bulba
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2014
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1 DVD (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Set in sixteenth-century Ukraine, a Cossack chieftain is determined to regain his land from Polish invaders while conflict within his family erupts when his son falls in love with a Polish girl.