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The novel "The Black Woman" (1834) is the magnum opus of the writer, publicist, journalist, and philologist Nikolai Ivanovich Grech (1787-1867), one of the outstanding phenomena of the Pushkin era. Grandiose in conception, the novel spans three decades of Russian life at the turn of two great centuries and, following "Eugene Onegin," deserves to be called an "encyclopedia of Russian life." Looking back to the German Gothic tradition (Spies, Vulpius, Zschocke), Grech adopts its ideas and imagery—and skillfully implants them in Russian soil. All the essential ingredients of the Gothic novel are present: miraculous encounters, prophecies, obsessions, Masonic secrets, mesmeric experiments, and animal magnetism—the dominant fashion of the era. And at the center of the plot is the story of a man who was prophesied to find happiness not just anywhere, but in a coffin. Numerous characters are drawn into a whirlwind of events, over which looms the image of the Black Woman—something elusive: perhaps the personification of childhood terror, perhaps a benevolent guardian genius, or perhaps even the embodiment of an omniscient Providence. A masterfully crafted plot draws the reader through a labyrinth of mysterious events, the stories of which are skillfully woven into the fabric of the narrative through interstitial novellas: prophetic dreams, epiphanies, prophecies, rumors of a fiery serpent flying over St. Petersburg at midnight, a premonition of imminent death.
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