Taras Bulba

In popular culture

  • The 2007 Jane Smiley book Ten Days in the Hills features a film producer trying to film a new version of Taras Bulba.
  • The villainous character Taurus Bulba (an anthropomorphic bull) in the Disney cartoon show Darkwing Duck is a nod, if in name only, to the literary character of Taras Bulba.
  • In the 2002 video game No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s Way, Cate Archer (controlled by the player) finds a copy of Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol when searching a vanquished foe.
  • In 2007, a copy of the book is part of the literature selected by Christopher McCandless in the movie Into the Wild among other similar works of authors such as Leo Tolstoy, Henry David Thoreau and Jack London.

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