Ukrajina u očima Gogolja i danas
Ukraine in the Eyes of Gogol Even Today

Author(s): Sanela Ramović
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Russian Literature
Published by: Naučnoistraživački institut »Ibn Sina«
Keywords: Golden Age; Gogol; Ukraine; folklore; rituals;
Summary/Abstract: The golden age of Russian literature was sealed by the unsurpassed writer of Ukrainian origin Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, who presented the Ukrainian reality to readers through a vivid landscape of the landscape and everything that made up Ukraine at that time. At the same time, through individual works such as the short story Sorocin Fair (Сорочинская ярмарка) from the collection, the structure of which is followed by elements of the fantasy of Ukrainian folklore, Evenings in a village near Dikanjka (Вечера на хуторе близ Диканьки.), it shows the society inside Ukraine. The story Sorocin Fair was chosen precisely because, like all the others in this collection, it is accompanied by motifs from Ukrainian folklore in which the line of culture and customs of the cheerful and festive Ukrainian people can be traced. The goal, through one’s own perspective, is to explain whether today’s Ukraine is the way Gogol presented it, to make some kind of comparison with former and present Ukraine, and to show what reality is like today compared to Gogol’s time.

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