Mirgorod as a cycle
Mirgorod as a cycle

Summary/Abstract: I will try in this brief article to insert Gogol’s Mirgorod inside the writer’s previous works in order to underline the differences and the similarities with the first Dikanka’s cycle and with his articles published in Arabesque. I will put much stress on the different genres of the story and on the common themes that takes different meanings inside the tales. Much interesting is the new representation of space that from open and boundless space in Dikanka reduces itself to microcosms more and more limited by boundaries where the internal/external (moj/chužoj) opposition becomes more clear. In this way, individualism and isolation deepen themselves. This space is contradicted by Taras Bulba’s chronotope where the space defended by the Cossacks from the non-Orthodox and Muslims appear unlimited also due to space mobility of the Seč’.

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