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Plot summary. Students at Bratsky Monastery in Kiev break for summer vacation. [1] [2] The impoverished students must find food and lodging along their journey home. They stray from the high road at the sight of a farmstead, hoping its cottagers would provide them.
The Viy. by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol. (The “Viy” is a monstrous creation of popular fancy. It is the name which the inhabitants of Little Russia give to the king of the gnomes, whose eyelashes reach to the ground. The following story is a specimen of such folk-lore.
El “Viy” es una creación disparatada de la fantasía popular ucraniana. El “Viy” es el rey de los gnomos, cuyos parpados son tan largos que descienden hasta la misma tierra. El “Viy” es un relato de fantasía gótica, escrito por Nikolai Gógol en la colección de cuentos Mirgorod, publicada en 1835.
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The Viy. Nikolai Gogol Translated by Claud Field. (The "Viy" is a monstrous creation of popular fancy. It is the name which inhabitants of Little Russia give to the king of the gnomes, whose eyelashes reach to the ground.
1 Viy is a colossal creation of folk imagination. This name is applied by people in Little Russia to the chief of the gnomes, whose eyelids reach to the ground. The whole story is a popular legend. I did not wish to change it in any way and tell it almost as simply as I heard it. (Author's note.)
