Mirgorod (Gogol)
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Mirgorod is a collection of short stories by Nikolai Gogol
meant to be a sequel of sorts to his two volumes of Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka
. The stories in this collection are of similar origin and based on Ukrainian
folklore
, though they seem to have a sense of nostalgia and some characters are believed to actually be portrayals of Gogol's grandparents and people he knew while living in Ukraine
. This collection, unlike Dikanka, has no given narrator.
Though grouped together, the stories could be separated with no way to tell they were meant to be bulked in the same collection. Regardless, Mirgorod was published in two volumes with two stories in each. Numbers one and three represent Gogol's Shponka tradition, after the name of the story, where his realistic stories become almost unreal because their reality is so intense. These stories carry a sense of the Gothic, with grotesque, horrifying scenes as well as idyllic situations, lacking the folkloric elements found in his earlier works and the influence from the Ukraine. The other two stories follow more along his earlier, more Romantic tradition.
Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was a Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist and novelist.Considered by his contemporaries one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in Gogol's work a fundamentally romantic sensibility, with strains of Surrealism...
meant to be a sequel of sorts to his two volumes of Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka
Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka
Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka is a collection of short stories by Nikolai Gogol, written from 1831-1832. They appeared in various magazines and were published in book form when Gogol, who had spent his life in Ukraine up to the age of nineteen, was twenty two. He put his early impressions and...
. The stories in this collection are of similar origin and based on Ukrainian
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
folklore
Folklore
Folklore consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group. It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared. The study of folklore is sometimes called...
, though they seem to have a sense of nostalgia and some characters are believed to actually be portrayals of Gogol's grandparents and people he knew while living in Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
. This collection, unlike Dikanka, has no given narrator.
Though grouped together, the stories could be separated with no way to tell they were meant to be bulked in the same collection. Regardless, Mirgorod was published in two volumes with two stories in each. Numbers one and three represent Gogol's Shponka tradition, after the name of the story, where his realistic stories become almost unreal because their reality is so intense. These stories carry a sense of the Gothic, with grotesque, horrifying scenes as well as idyllic situations, lacking the folkloric elements found in his earlier works and the influence from the Ukraine. The other two stories follow more along his earlier, more Romantic tradition.