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Original Title:	Вий ISBN13 9789688674246
Edition Language:	Spanish

Viy Paperback | Pages: 91 pages

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Title	:	Viy
Author	:	Nikolai Gogol
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 91 pages
Published	:	2008 by Axial (first published 1835)
Categories	:	Cultural. Russia. Horror. Classics. Literature. Russian Literature. Fiction. Short Stories. Fantasy

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Viy, a novella included in Migorod (1835), is in many respects a typical tale of Gogol’s Ukrainian period: based loosely on folk tradition, it incorporates vivid supernatural elements, and, although its jazzy improvisatory prose extends its riffs for too many bars (to continue the jazz metaphor), occasionally dissipating its own power in the process, it is still so original in style, so dazzling in its effects, that it can still stake a claim to be considered a masterpiece.

It begins in typical folktale fashion: three wandering university students—a theologian, a rhetorician, and a philosopher—seek lodging for the night at the house of an old woman. This woman, a witch who can transform her appearance, leads the young philopsopher Khoma Brut on a journey that involves him in the exorcism of a wealthy Cossack’s dead daughter and the eventual confrontation with the formidable “the Viy.”

“The Viy,” AKA “King of the Gnomes,” is indeed really something: an all-seeing demon with a face of iron and eyelids that reach to the ground. (Gogol claims he is a figure of folklore, but scholars cannot find him in the Ukrainian tradition. Odds are Gogol created the demon Viy himself.) But, for my representative passage, I prefer to include an earlier passage where Khoma Brut, carrying the old witch on his back, experiences her transformation into a beautiful young woman. Notice the growing eroticism of the passage:

The perspiration flowed from him in streams; he experienced simultaneously a strange feeling of oppression and delight in all his being. Often he felt as though he had no longer a heart, and pressed his hand on his breast with alarm.

Weary to death, he began to repeat all the prayers which he knew, and all the formulas of exorcism against evil spirits. Suddenly he experienced a certain relief. He felt that his pace was slackening; the witch weighed less heavily on his shoulders . . . .

Then suddenly he wrenched himself away from under the witch, and sprang on her back in his turn. She began to run, with short, trembling steps indeed, but so rapidly that he could hardly breathe. So swiftly did she run that she hardly seemed to touch the ground. . . . He seized a stick that was lying on the ground, and began to belabor the hag with all his might. She uttered a wild cry, which at first sounded raging and threatening; then it became gradually weaker and more gentle, till at last it sounded quite low like the pleasant tones of a silver bell, so that it penetrated his innermost soul. Involuntarily the thought passed through his mind:“Is she really an old woman?”

“Ah! I can go no farther,” she said in a faint voice, and sank to the earth.

He knelt beside her, and looked in her eyes. The dawn was red in the sky, and in the distance glimmered the gilt domes of the churches of Kiev. Before him lay a beautiful maiden with thick, dishevelled hair and long eyelashes. Unconsciously she had stretched out her white, bare arms, and her tear-filled eyes gazed at the sky.

Khoma trembled like an aspen-leaf. Sympathy, and a strange feeling of excitement, and a hitherto unknown fear overpowered him. He began to run with all his might. His heart beat violently, and he could not explain to himself what a strange, new feeling had seized him. He did not wish to return to the village, but hastened towards Kiev, thinking all the way as he went of his weird, unaccountable adventure.

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I, uh...hm.So, I guess I liked it? It had a pretty good build up for how short the story is, but then it's just kinda "and then the ending. The End." It came up so abruptly that I'm still just kinda "wait, what?"Still, it was alright. I guess. Maybe? Might change the rating later after I think about it some more.

So I thought Viy maybe was the source for the name of the road, The Vy, in the Grisha trilogy or the inspiration for the wolf like creatures, the vye, in The Tapestry series. After reading this story it's definitely not either of those! A viy is a creature from folklore but not anything like a wolf.Actually this was an unexpected horror story. It was alright starting out, but then got really creepy once the philosopher started reading in the chapel. There is also a movie based on the story. I'll



Old-fashioned fantasy :))

It is strange how I can read Horror novels or a Thriller and be not impressed at all, and then I decide to re-read this short tale (at day-time) and I find myself being so freaked out that I can't fall asleep. Usually I don't mind the dead very much, or ghost or evil spirits, but the ones from this tale get under my skin every single time. Maybe it is the simple write-style, maybe it is the eerie atmosphere that is established from the very beginning, I honestly don't know, but every time I

Damn that was scary...I'm going to have a hard time falling asleep tonight.

Rereading the classics. I have my issues with Gogol, but this one is always nice to go back to.