"Taras Bulba" is a short historical novel by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol from the series "Mirgorod".
The plot of the novel concerns the history of Zaporozhian Cossacks. The main character is Taras Buljba, an old Cossack, who, with his sons Andrija and Ostap, sets out to fight against the Polish nobility and defend Orthodoxy.
Dead Souls (1842) is a brilliant satire that exposes the moral and social rot of imperial Russia through Chichikov's fraud with dead serfs, with Gogol's virtuoso mix of humor, irony and lyricism.
Srpski pisac poznat po satiričnim romanima, u Andrićevoj lestvici užasa secira balkanski mentalitet kroz parabolu jugonostalgije i nacionalnih mitova. Naziv aludira na Ivu Andrića kao lakmus-papir za kritiku – Balkanci ga svojataju ili odbacuju po volji.