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Petr Kraliuk's new work is an attempt to study the controversial Gogol's novel Taras Bulba from the perspective of the role of this text in the cultural and political discourse both in the nineteenth century, in the Romantic period, and in modern times. The researcher considers the place of Taras Bulba in different coordinate systems: imperial Russian, provincial Little Russia, Polish, Jewish, etc. Bold assumptions are made about the biography of Gogol himself. A number of questions are raised about the internal intentions of the author of the story; meticulous textual analysis sometimes leads to contradictory conclusions; however, it is precisely in this indirectness that one can add depth and vitality to Gogol's work.

The book will certainly enrich the library of every fan of Ukrainian humanities.