HIGHER JUSTICE: FROM HORACE TO TARAS BULBA Cover Image

ВЫСШАЯ СПРАВЕДЛИВОСТЬ: ОТ ГОРАЦИЯ К ТАРАСУ БУЛЬБЕ
HIGHER JUSTICE: FROM HORACE TO TARAS BULBA

Author(s): Alexander Markov
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Comparative Study of Literature
Published by: Институт за македонска литература
Keywords: Gogol; Horace; poetics; ancient ethics; reception of antiquity in Europe

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the reflection of Horace’s idea of moderate and just life in Gogol's “Taras Bulba”. It is proved that Gogol has learned not only the ethics of Horace, but his poetics, his notion of work and rest. Motives of Horace were used by Gogol to idealize the past and to clarify the importance of different forms of justice. Gogol’s romantic conservatism is only a form of “justice”, polemically sharpened, and not the final position.

  • Issue Year: 14/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 33-42
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Russian