Taras Bulba
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The First New Translation in Forty Years
Set sometime between the mid-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century, Gogolâs epic tale recounts both a bloody Cossack revolt against the Poles (led by the bold Taras Bulba of Ukrainian folk mythology) and the trials of Taras Bulbaâs two sons.
As Robert Kaplan writes in his Introduction, â[Taras Bulba] has a Kiplingesque gusto . . . that makes it a pleasure to read, but central to its theme is an unredemptive, darkly evil violence that is far beyond anything that Kipling ever touched on. We need more works like Taras Bulba to better understand the emotional wellsprings of the threat we face today in places like the Middle East and Central Asia.â And the critic John Cournos has noted, âA clue to all Russian realism may be found in a Russian criticâs observation about Gogol: âSeldom has nature created a man so romantic in bent, yet so masterly in portraying all that is unromantic in life.â But this statement does not cover the whole ground, for it is easy to see in almost all of Gogolâs work his âfree Cossack soulâ trying to break through the shell of sordid today like some ancient demon, essentially Dionysian. So that his works, true though they are to our life, are at once a reproach, a protest, and a challenge, ever calling for joy, ancient joy, that is no more with us. And they have all the joy and sadness of the Ukrainian songs he loved so much.â
Set sometime between the mid-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century, Gogolâs epic tale recounts both a bloody Cossack revolt against the Poles (led by the bold Taras Bulba of Ukrainian folk mythology) and the trials of Taras Bulbaâs two sons.
As Robert Kaplan writes in his Introduction, â[Taras Bulba] has a Kiplingesque gusto . . . that makes it a pleasure to read, but central to its theme is an unredemptive, darkly evil violence that is far beyond anything that Kipling ever touched on. We need more works like Taras Bulba to better understand the emotional wellsprings of the threat we face today in places like the Middle East and Central Asia.â And the critic John Cournos has noted, âA clue to all Russian realism may be found in a Russian criticâs observation about Gogol: âSeldom has nature created a man so romantic in bent, yet so masterly in portraying all that is unromantic in life.â But this statement does not cover the whole ground, for it is easy to see in almost all of Gogolâs work his âfree Cossack soulâ trying to break through the shell of sordid today like some ancient demon, essentially Dionysian. So that his works, true though they are to our life, are at once a reproach, a protest, and a challenge, ever calling for joy, ancient joy, that is no more with us. And they have all the joy and sadness of the Ukrainian songs he loved so much.â
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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, Harperâs, 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, Asiaâs Cauldron, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts. He holds the Robert Strausz-HupÃĐ 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 Pentagonâs Defense Policy Board and the U.S. Navyâs Executive Panel. Foreign Policy magazine twice named him one of the worldâs âTop 100 Global Thinkers.â
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, Asiaâs Cauldron, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts. He holds the Robert Strausz-HupÃĐ 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 Pentagonâs Defense Policy Board and the U.S. Navyâs Executive Panel. Foreign Policy magazine twice named him one of the worldâs âTop 100 Global Thinkers.â
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