N.V.GOGOL: “TERRIBLE VENGEANCE” – A CIRCLE AND A BOWL
Journal: Philological Studies
Year: 2019

The article deals with Nykolai Gogol’s trip to the Crimea (1835) and the «Сrimean text» of Ukraine in his tale “Terrible vengeance” (1832). The author examins its structure, symbolic system, religious and philosophical content. The story of M. Gogol is a rich source for multi-dimensional research, in particular from the point of view of the mythological notions of Ukrainians, because in the lines of Gogol’s prose amazing authentic mysticism is skillfully encoded. The rich mythological layer unde