Taras Bulba

Fierce, cruel, brave and passionate, the Cossacks make the steppe tremble under the hooves of their horses. One of them is Taras Bulba. He is no longer young, but he retains his strength and intelligence and, seeing his religion and lineage threatened, he will seek revenge in Polish lands together with his sons Ostap and Andrei. No garrison, walled city or church can stop them, until misfortune befalls them... Set in the 16th century, Taras Bulba (published 1835) is the epic, as brief as it is beautiful, of the Dnieper Cossacks and the heroic struggle that the Ukrainian people sustained for several centuries to preserve their national independence. With an accent between lyrical and nostalgic, with an epic intonation and vast metaphors that recall the poets of classical antiquity, Gogol sings of the powerful and wild nature of those indomitable men. A story full of action, heroism, betrayals and passions in the vast plains of the steppes, whose protagonist is one of those unforgettable characters in which myth and history are mixed and who from the first moment became an inalienable heritage of literature.