The mirror-world of Gogol's early stories

Richard Peace

pp. 19-33

in: Jane Grayson, Faith Wigzell (eds), Nikolay Gogol, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1989

Abstract

How comforting, how luxurious is a summer day in the Ukraine! How languorously hot are those hours when midday glitters in stillness and intense heat, and the blue immeasurable ocean bending over the land in a lascivious dome, seems to have fallen asleep, plunged entirely in sweet bliss, clasping and squeezing the beautiful one in its ethereal embraces. (I,111)