Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka

Evenings at the hamlet near Dikanka (Russian Вечера на хуторе близ Диканьки ) is a collection of eight stories from the Ukrainian folk milieu of Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol. The collection was written and published in the years 1831/32. It consists of two parts, each with four stories.

Each of the two parts is introduced by a preface of the ( fictional) author Rudij Panko, the framework for his stories is called " Publisher" and the reader warns about the unusual world in which he will introduce him.

Part 1

  • " The Fair at Sorochyntsi " ( Сорочинская ярмарка )
  • " The Midsummer Eve " ( Вечер на кануне Ивана Купала )
  • " May Night, or the Drowned " ( Майская ночь, или Утопленница )
  • " The missing certificate " ( Пропавшая грамота ).

Part 2

  • " The Night Before Christmas" ( Ночь перед рождеством )
  • " Terrible Vengeance " ( Страшная месть )
  • "Ivan Fyodorovich Schponka and his auntie " ( Иван Федорович Шпонька и его тетушка )
  • " The Bewitched Place" ( Заколдованное место ).

The stories take the reader to an earlier time. It is the world of rural Ukraine, fully blazing lust for life and superstition. This cheerful folk world is only at first glance happy, harmonious and natural. This appearance is deceptive, because the harmonic image is disturbed by fantastic causes that break into the serene life. The fabric of his stories took Gogol of the Ukrainian folklore. The " romantic double world " [ Städtke ] combines the mundane with the fantastic. It comes to weddings, conquests, happy endings but everything comes about only through lies and deception by seductive lists or through the work of the devil, by the murder of innocents. Using these narratives Gogol introduced in the Russian literature, they were enthusiastically received by the contemporary Russian audience, although Pushkin of " inconsistency and little probability " language. In a recent Russian literature Encyclopedia (. Секачева Е.В. / Смоличева С В. . Русская Литература Москва 2001) emphasized that the Ukrainian people is the main hero of the stories: " Главным объектом изображения в " Вечерах ... » становится народная жизнь, а главным героем - украинский народ, мудрый, лукавый, вольнолюбивый, благородный, удалой и душевношедрый ".

Edits by other artists

  • The Fair Sorochyntsi ( 1874-80 ). Opera by Modest Mussorgsky. UA 1911
  • Maiskaja noč ' ( May Night ) (1878 /79). Opera. Libretto and Music: Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov. UA 1880
  • Wetschera na chutorje blis Dikanki ( The Night Before Christmas) ( 1961). Film. Written and directed by Alexander Rou Arturowitsch

" The Night Before Christmas" - opera by Rimsky -Korsakov " The Slippers " - opera by Tchaikovsky, both on the short story " The Night Before Christmas"

  • Works by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
  • Story
  • Literary work
  • Literature (19th century)
  • Literature ( Russian)
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