The Night Before Christmas

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Salvo este libro y algunos de sus "Cuentos ucranianos", es poco lo que me resta por leer de Gógol y aún así sigue asombrándome.

Vakula is in love with Oksana - the most beautiful girl in Dikanka. But she is selfish and seems to love only herself. Once she tells him, that she will marry him only if he brings her shoes of the empresses… I’ll end this review—just for the hell of it—with the levitating dumplings: . . . Patsiuk opened his mouth wide, looked at the dumplings, and opened his mouth still wider. Just then a dumpling flipped out of the bowl, plopped into the sour cream, turned over on the other side, jumped up, and went straight into Patsiuk’s mouth. Patsiuk ate it and again opened his mouth, and in went another dumpling in the same way. He was left only with the work of chewing and swallowing. It's a grim tale, like many from Eastern European countries or Russia, and one that is apparently still read to children every Christmas. And I can see why for it has cool worldbuilding, dark humour, high stakes and a relatable hero fighting evil - or is it just his neighbours he's fighting? In any case, this has all the hallmarks of a great story. Gogol first used the techniques of surrealism and the grotesque in his works The Nose, Viy, The Overcoat, and Nevsky Prospekt. Ukrainian upbringing, culture, and folklore influenced his early works, such as Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka .E la notte, come a farlo apposta, brillava magnifica! E la luce della luna sembrava ancora più bianca per lo splendore della neve. There it is: the reindeer have names – names that will live on as long as December 25th is celebrated as a holiday. The Christmas Book: The Night Before Christmas; Christmas Day; and, The Day After Christmas. Illustrated by G. A. Davis Stedman, Edmund Clarence (1900). An American Anthology, 1787-1900 ([6th impression]ed.). Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. p.15. hdl: 2027/loc.ark:/13960/t72v36z23.

Our daughter and I had not read this together since she was very little but she could still recite some passages as I read. At age 12, near 13, she thinks that she is too old and mature for many "childish" things, but not for this classic beloved Christmas poem. One sign of her growing maturity is that she was also interested in my telling her facts about Dr. Clement Moore from the very good introduction to this free Kindle edition. Unfortunately, as usual, there were no illustrations in this edition. It's strange how little it resembles the satanism and the consumerism of the (TM) Santa we've all grown to love and enjoy with our Coke, no? I don't think there are many people out there that aren't familiar with this poem by Clement C. Moore that was originally published in 1823. Theres a reason it's a classic and that's because it captures the magic of Christmas. We've had many versions of the book over the years but the one we read from now is beautifully illustrated by Richard Johnson, this is such a gorgeous book and I can't imagine a Christmas without it!Gardner, Martin (1991). The Annotated Night Before Christmas: A Collection Of Sequels, Parodies, And Imitations Of Clement Moore's Immortal Ballad About Santa Claus; Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Martin Gardner. Summit Books. ISBN 0-671-70839-2. Rápidamente, iremos conociendo a los demás personajes, dado que el Diablo tiene una bruja amiga en Soróchintsi, que se llama Soloja, quien a su vez tiene un hijo llamado Vakula, el herrero, quien está enamorado de la hija de Chub, llamada Oksana y que es la joven más hermosa que se pueda encontrar en toda la comarca. SKETCHES OF PUBLIC CHARACTERS, DISCOURSES AND ESSAYS: SIGNED by the author of "The Night Before Christmas" Twas the Night Before Christmas Part 1, Decca 71252". Img.discogs.com. Archived from the original on 2 November 2020 . Retrieved 2 November 2020. On January 20, 1829, Troy editor Orville L. Holley alluded to the author of the Christmas poem, using terms that accurately described Moore as a native and current resident of New York City, and as "a gentleman of more merit as a scholar and a writer than many of more noisy pretensions". [10] In December 1833, a diary entry by Francis P. Lee, a student at General Theological Seminary when Moore taught there, referred to a holiday figure of St. Nicholas as being "robed in fur, and dressed according to the description of Prof. Moore in his poem". [11] Four poems including A Visit from St. Nicholas appeared under Moore's name in The New-York Book of Poetry, edited by Charles Fenno Hoffman (New York: George Dearborn, 1837). The Christmas poem appears on pp.217–19, credited to "Clement C. Moore". Moore stated in a letter to the editor of the New York American (published on March 1, 1844) that he "gave the publisher" of The New-York Book of Poetry "several pieces, among which was the 'Visit from St. Nicholas.'" Admitting that he wrote it "not for publication, but to amuse my children," Moore claimed the Christmas poem in this 1844 letter as his "literary property, however small the intrinsic value of that property may be". A Visit from St. Nicholas appears on pp.124–27 in Moore's volume of collected Poems (New York: Bartlett and Welford, 1844). Before 1844, the poem was included in two 1840 anthologies: attributed to "Clement C. Moore" in Selections from The American Poets, edited by William Cullen Bryant (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1840), pp.285–86; and to "C. C. Moore" in the first volume of The Poets of America, edited by John Keese (New York: S. Colman, 1840), pp.102–04. The New-York Historical Society has a later manuscript of the poem in Moore's handwriting, forwarded by T. W. C. Moore along with a cover letter dated March 15, 1862 giving circumstances of the poem's original composition and transmission after a personal "interview" with Clement C. Moore. [12]

Por aquel entonces la tierra que ahora llamamos Ucrania estaba muy de moda. Las costumbres de los cosacos ucranianos, sus creencias y sus supersticiones fascinaban a la población rusa de las ciudades. Para los acomodados y cultivados rusos, una minoría, éstos constituían como personajes exóticos e inquietantes. Gógol, aprovechando esta romántica idea de la que habían revestido los rusos a los cosacos ucranianos, le pidió a su madre que le mandara toda la información que dispusiera sobre las costumbres y leyendas de su localidad natal. Y el resultado de una magnifica documentación junto con la embrujadora prosa de Gógol dieron lugar a las reverenciadas "Veladas en Dikanka", publicadas en dos partes; la primera en 1831 y la segunda en 1832. Moore's conception of Saint Nicholas was borrowed from his friend Washington Irving, but Moore portrayed his "jolly old elf" as arriving on Christmas Eve rather than Christmas Day. At the time that Moore wrote the poem, Christmas Day was overtaking New Year's Day as the preferred genteel family holiday of the season, but some Protestants viewed Christmas as the result of "Catholic ignorance and deception" [1] and still had reservations. By having Saint Nicholas arrive the night before, Moore "deftly shifted the focus away from Christmas Day with its still-problematic religious associations". As a result, "New Yorkers embraced Moore's child-centered version of Christmas as if they had been doing it all their lives." [1] A Visit from St. Nicholas, more commonly known as The Night Before Christmas and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas from its first line, is a poem first published anonymously under the title Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas in 1823 and later attributed to Clement Clarke Moore, who claimed authorship in 1837. Literary history [ edit ] Clement Clarke Moore, the author of A Visit from St. Nicholas The original publication of Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas in the Troy Sentinel, 23 December 1823 This morning while I was about to drop her at the gate of her school, she again borrowed the rosary hanging on the rearview mirror of my car. The rosary was a gift from my friend who attended the World Youth’s Day in Brazil this year so I am proud of it and taking care of it. The beads are made of wood and each mystery has its own color. As my daughter was removing it from the mirror I told her that I will *hint, hint* … or maybe Santa Claus will… give her a rosary for Christmas so she will stop borrowing my rosary. She sweetly smiled as if in acceptance that a rosary would be a nice gift from Santa. She is now 17.Here, we see elements of the modern Santa Claus archetype taking shape. He is jolly, benevolent, slightly mischievous – as suits someone who commits countless acts of breaking-and-entering each year, but breaks into homes to give gifts rather than taking things away. All one needs to do is take away the details about Saint Nicholas smoking a pipe – something that would not pass muster with modern sensibilities. The Night Before Christmas" and " 'Twas the Night Before Christmas" redirect here. For other uses, see The Night Before Christmas (disambiguation) and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas (disambiguation). Do parents need to stop encouraging their young children to believe in Santa Claus? When the child grows up, are parents expected to correct this by saying something like, ”Now that you are a grownup, sorry if we fooled you but there is no Santa.”

The poetry was soon reprinted in many newspapers and magazines and was also adapted for many musical renderings. Revisiting 'A Visit from St. Nicholas' ". New York State Library. December 2015 . Retrieved 19 December 2020. UofUtahSingers, 'Twas the Night Before Christmas – University of Utah Combined Choirs, archived from the original on 21 December 2021 , retrieved 13 December 2018 Jo Stafford recorded a version of "'Twas The Night Before Christmas" as part of her 1955 album Happy Holiday. [36] Sarah Bryan Miller. "Long saga behind composer's Christmas cantata". St. Louis Post Dispatch. 1 December 2017.The Night Before Christmas is collected in Village Evenings Near Dikanka and Mirgorod, it is also published as a standalone novella in translation by Anna Summers, and works quite well as a single sitting read as snow flutters outside your window on a dark winter’s night. But is it the evening arriving early that has made it dark or have you crossed the Devil and he has stolen the moon from the sky as he does here… As the avatar of intrusive magic, Santa is powerful but not entirely welcome, a poorly-dressed, poorly-piped elf. Santa the smoker! Ah, times have changed. Y también se expresa en la historia ironia hacia las autoridades del pueblo, con toda su idiosincracia. Relatando historias de amores, matrimonios , cosacos , y viejos verdes. Lo cotidiano mezclado con lo sobrenatural: brujas, diablos, y curanderos. Una comedia de enredos que se nos hace bastante shakesperiana por momentos.