تاراس بولبا

If romance is a poetic essence, then realism is what allowed development to be born in Europe and especially in Russia, by a group of creative writers. And what is less than Slavic literature, it is fitting to say about its dean Nikolai Gogol, as the first to strike his axe steadily and decisively, paving the way for the new school for the writers who came after him from the Russians. And perhaps no critic has done justice to this great writer as much as Ehard did when she said: "Pushkin and Kermantov were brilliant novelists, but the creator of the Russian novel is Gogol"! Gogol was influenced, in his early literary works. It was obvious in his style his influence by European literature, but in his novel "Taras Bulba" he presented something unique, free of any imitation or external influences. This novel placed Gogol's name alongside the names of the giants of world storytelling, such as Victor Hugo, Emile Zola, Boccaccio, Charles Dickens, and Sir Walter Scott. Gogol completed "Taras Bulba" with its epic character, in intermittent periods lasting more than nine years, between 1833 and 1842. The struggle of the Ukrainian people for independence, which continued for many years during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, inspired Gogol with the main lines of this novel, which came as the writer intended: an immortal national touch.