Literature lesson in 5th grade
N.V. Gogol " Enchanted place" Real and fantastic in the story.
During the classes
I have now read “Evenings on
Farm near Dikanka." They
amazed me. Here's the real one
gaiety, skill,
ease, without
affectation, without stiffness. A
What poetry in places!
A.S. Pushkin
Organizing time.
Motivation, goal setting.
The teacher turns to the epigraph and announces the purpose of the lesson.
Formulation of the lesson topic by students.
Entry in notebooks: N.V. Gogol "Enchanted Place".
Checking d/z
A pre-prepared student briefly talks about the basic biographical data of N.V. Gogol (multimedia presentation), the rest make notes in notebooks.
Teacher's word
1831 – 1 part
1832 – part 2
-Open the table of contents of the collections. Which part is the story you read at home?
-Let's take a closer look at the collection. At the beginning there is a preface, from which we learn about who the narrator is (Rudy Panko), what characters will be discussed, etc. And then there is a dictionary compiled by the writer himself. When you read the story, probably not all the words were clear, so today we will turn to this dictionary for clarification.
6. Preparation for perception of the story
-Did the plot of the story “The Enchanted Place” seem to you?
unusual? What?
(It resembles legends, traditions, fairy tales.)
- Listen to one of the legends with a similar plot and answer
questions.
The teacher tells a folk legend about the Golden Chicken treasure.
- What is this legend about? (about the enchanted treasure)
- What legends about treasures do you know?
(possible children's answers - Appendix 1)
Study of the story
Entry in notebooks: “N.V. Gogol "Enchanted Place".
- Was it easy to understand what you read? Were all the words clear?
You have cards on your tables (give them to everyone before the lesson) with words. Do you know their meaning? Let's find their interpretation in the DICTIONARY at the beginning of the collection. (Chain work)
Conclusion. -What is one of the features of the language of this story? (many Ukrainian words and expressions characteristic of the Ukrainian people)
-What do you think, for what? (in order to more believably, reliably show the characters, convey the national flavor, this culture is close to N.V. Gogol, because he himself was born in Ukraine, as reported at the beginning of the lesson).
8. Working with illustrations.
And now, using questions and illustrations, we will restore the content of the work. Let's draw up a picture plan using the illustrations proposed for this work and attach them to the board.
Which favorite hobby did your grandfather have? (Listen to different stories from passers-by.)
How did the grandfather of his Chumakov acquaintances decide to entertain him? (grandchildren dancing)
And what unexpectedly happened to the grandfather himself during his grandchildren’s dance? (legs suddenly twitched and began to dance)
What unusual happened to grandfather during his dance? (At one place my arms and legs refused to obey, and then I found myself with a smooth field)
Where was the candle burning? (In the cemetery, it's sure sign that there is a hidden treasure)
What did grandfather plan to do the next morning? (go back and dig up the treasure, but didn’t find this place in the field)
How did the grandfather get to the right place the second time? (Hit in the hearts at the “enchanted place” where there was no dancing)
What treasure did your grandfather dig up? (Cauldron with garbage)
What grew in the enchanted place? (Nothing good grew there: “A watermelon is not a watermelon, a pumpkin is not a pumpkin, the devil knows what it is!”)
Work with text.
Expressive reading by the student of a fragment of the story “The Third Night of the Search for Treasure” (from the words “I began to dig - the earth is soft...” to the words “...then I just took a breath”)
Reading analysis:
Why did Grandfather Maxim decide that there was a treasure in the enchanted place?
When did he go looking? (late in the evening, I arrived at the place at night)
What do you think a person feels in the dark, alone in an unfamiliar place? How can you explain your grandfather's fears?
Find lines that would help us voice this picture?
What could this really be? Have you ever heard the echoes of your own voice in the forest, large room? (Echo)
What did he imagine (see and hear)?
What did he end up digging? (The cauldron is heavy)
How do you see your grandfather? Is it funny to watch him or scary? Read the examples?
What quality failed him? (greed)
Was it funny or scary to read this fragment?
Who is Gogol laughing at? Why?
Staging problematic issue lesson. “What is real in the story and what is fantastic?
Working with the concepts of “reality” and “fiction” (in your own words with teacher correction).
Reality is something that really does not exist in the imagination.
Fiction is something that is based on imagination, fiction, something magical, incredible.
Note in notebooks:
Drawing up a table “Fantastic and real in the story” and filling it with examples during the conversation.
Where does the story take place? In some kingdom? Is the location real or fantastic? (Ukraine)
What time do the events take place? In time immemorial? Support this with quotations from the text. (in the narrator’s childhood, spring)
On whose behalf is the story being told? Who is the narrator of the story? Name the other characters. Are they real or fantastic?
Are the everyday objects surrounding them real or not? Give an example from your homework?
What about the clothes of the heroes? Look at our sign?
What events are being described?
What place is the sexton talking about in this story?
Compiling a table
Material for comparison Reality Fiction
Place of action Time Characters Everyday life and people's lives Clothing Events Divide the illustrations into 2 parts: a description of real and fantastic events.
Conclusions: what is more in the story? What does N.V. Gogol pay more attention to? Why? Pay attention to the subtitle - “truth”.
(The story “The Enchanted Place” has the subtitle true story. All events are depicted realistically and truthfully. Descriptions of clothing, everyday life and people’s lives are given in detail.)
-So why did the writer need to combine true story and fairy tale in one work? Let's think about it.
-Finish Pushkin’s words: “A fairy tale is a lie...” (Perhaps Gogol wants to teach us something important, to warn us about something)
Summarizing.
- What lesson does Gogol give us?
Dictation recording:
“The Enchanted Place” is a story where the author talks to readers about the illusory nature of ill-gotten wealth. Gogol exposes the thirst for enrichment, the destructive passion for money, which ultimately leads to disaster.
Reflection, announcement of grades
What will you remember about today's lesson?
Complete the sentences:
Today in class I realized... It was difficult for me... I liked it... - I'm satisfied
- Whose work in class do you want to praise?
My mood is similar to (choose a card): sunshine, sunshine with a cloud, cloud Homework: Prepare a retelling of a memorable episode.
Annex 1
Golden chicken Well, an old woman was walking, one of the bainas, and a chicken was running ahead of her, and all of these golden kopecks. She followed this chicken - and wanted to catch it, but she walked away from her - and she followed. Such a golden chicken runs - and into the bird cherry. She looked: she was lost in the cherry tree. She searched and searched, then came in, went looking again, but couldn’t find it. Chicken is so lost. Then, people who know them say: here the treasure came through Cheryomushki. And they couldn’t find it.<...>Yes, I went looking for it myself, trying to find it... I would have gotten gold, but I couldn’t find anything.
To wear - not to wear
<...>He served in the army. And then one passing person said: “In such and such a place in the Olonets province of Kargopol district there is a stone mason.” There is a treasure there: to carry - not to take out and to carry - not to take out. And the place: in the masonry there is a stone in this, and in the stone there is a spring. And in this place there is a treasure. Well, no one knows what kind of treasure there is: to carry - not to take out and to carry - not to take out. If only the police could be sent there, maybe they would find it.
It turns around, but it doesn’t come into my hands
There is a treasure like this: the pot is spinning, but it is not given to the hands. It was in the Great Court, in Almozero. They dug - he was already close. As soon as you take it, it will thunder again - and down. They dig deeper - he goes down again. You have to take your time, know the words, and approach the icon...
Lamb from under the floor
One family lived calmly and quietly. It was a big family. Parents go to the field and leave their children at home. One day, parents come home and the children complain that a lamb is playing with them. - Which lamb? - they ask. “Yes, from under the floor,” the children answer. The children ask to get the lamb. But who will believe? And the legend spread through the village. The village began to live under fear. The children became swollen and did not play. And the lamb kept coming out and playing with the children. The golden ball came out... first as a golden man, then again pretending to be a lamb. So the years passed. Witches began to emerge from the baths. In empty houses music played and devils danced. Young people spent their evenings at home. And this news reached the village chieftain. He took the good Cossacks and came to the village to check how true this was. We came to this family and started doing excavations. And they discovered a Damascus steel saber and a basket of gold at a depth of three meters. And it turned out that the one who laid the treasure made a spell and that the treasure should thus be revealed. And so in this house the owner became a rich merchant. All this was bequeathed by the ancestors to the offspring.
Appendix 2
Dictionary
Komorachumaki
smoking
tsybulyahutor
dumplings
lad
smoking
cradle
nozzlescroll
hustcajupan
N.V. Gogol "Enchanted Place"
Retelling plan
1. Rudy Panko recalls a story from his childhood.
2. Grandfather goes to the bashtan (melon tree) with his grandchildren to chase sparrows and magpies.
3. Arrival of the Chumaks (peasants who traded salt and fish).
4. The guys and the old grandfather are dancing.
5. The hero finds himself in an enchanted place where he thinks there is a treasure.
6. Search for the enchanted place the next day.
7. An old man’s meeting with evil spirits.
8. The treasure turned out to be a hoax.
9. Grandfather decided never to trust the devil again.
Retelling
The main character, Rudy Panko, a famous storyteller of tales, begins his next narration, confirming the belief: if “the devilish force wants to faint, it will faint; By God, he’ll faint.” He remembers an old story that happened to his grandfather.
One day, the grandfather took him and his brother, then just boys, to chase sparrows and magpies on the tower. Familiar Chumaks drove by. Their grandfather began to treat them with melons, and asked his grandchildren to dance a Cossack dance. Yes, he couldn’t sit still and started dancing. And some kind of devilry happened here. The grandfather just wanted to “take a walk and throw some of his things into the whirlwind with his feet - his legs wouldn’t rise, and that’s all.” He started again, but didn’t dance, looked around, didn’t see anything familiar, but only a smooth field. I started looking closer and came across a path in the dark. A candle lit up on a grave to the side of the path. He decided that it was a treasure, but there was nothing to dig with. To avoid losing this place, he knocked down a large tree branch.
The next day, when it began to get dark in the field, the grandfather took a spade and shovel and went to look for the treasure. But he never found it, only the rain got it wet. Grandfather cursed Satan and returned with nothing. The next day, the grandfather, as if nothing had happened, went to the bashtan to dig a bed for late pumpkins. And when he passed by that enchanted place, he walked into its middle and struck the hearts with a spade. And suddenly I found myself in the same field again. I found a hiding place, pushed away a stone, and decided to take a sniff of tobacco. Suddenly someone sneezed from behind. I looked around - no one. I started digging and saw a boiler. Then the evil spirits began to frighten him: a bird’s nose, a ram’s head and a bear alternately appeared in front of him. It was so scary that my grandfather wanted to give up everything, but it was a pity to part with the treasure. He somehow grabbed the cauldron and “let’s run as far as the spirit could; He only hears something behind him and scratches his legs with rods...”
A long time ago, mother came from the farm with a pot of hot dumplings, everyone had dinner, mother washed the dishes, but grandfather was still not there. She washed the pot and went into the kitchen, and grandfather was there. He boasted, opened the boiler, and there: “What did you think was there? Well, at least after thinking carefully, eh? gold? This is what is not gold: rubbish, squabbles... it’s a shame to say what it is.”
From that time on, the grandfather told his grandchildren not to believe the devil: “And it happened that when he heard that there was trouble in another place, he himself would be baptized and force us. And he blocked off the enchanted place with a fence and threw all the weeds and rubbish that he raked out of the chestnut there. So nothing good ever grew in this place.”
"Enchanted place."
(Comic and tragic in the story)
Goal: Acquaintance with the characters and plot of the story, a combination of real and fantastic, tragic and comic. Show Gogol's skill in mastering folk stories. Development of speech culture, enrichment of vocabulary.
Equipment: portrait, illustrations by M. Klodt.
Notes on the board.
Hyperbole - a figurative expression containing an exaggeration of the amount of force
Grotesque is an image of something in a fantastic, ugly-comic form.
I. In the last lesson we turned to the dictionary compiled. Let's go back to some of them.
(There are groups of words on the board). You need to find the “extra” and justify the answer. (This was homework)
1. Galushka, kuhol, sirovets.
2. Tsybulya, kavul, turf.
3. Barn, levada, kuren
4. Sopilka, horn, zhupan.
(The rationale comes through the text)
Why do you think Gogol used so many Little Russian words? (They help convey the life, vocabulary of the inhabitants of Little Russia, love for local customs.
II. Conversation on the content of the story:
Who is the narrator in the story?
By what signs do we know that the story told by the sexton happened in the past?
What does the narrator remember about his grandfather?
\ Grandfather was interesting, sociable, loved guests, danced well, cheerful, talkative, loved to listen to stories from passers-by.
What in the memories looks like a real event, and what looks like a fantasy story?
\ The description of the grandfather’s life is real, but the fragments about the search for treasure are fantasy.
How many times did grandfather end up in a “mysterious place”? What happened the first and second time? Why was this place so attractive?
\ (Grandfather hit three times)
Retelling 1.2 students, fragments of the story
Guys, there are many legends and tales related to the plot of “The Enchanted Place”. Listen to one of them (A trained student retells “The Golden Hen”)
III. Expressive reading of the fragment “The Third Night of the Treasure Search”) p. 158-161).
What do a fragment and a story have in common?
How did Gogol use hyperbole and grotesque in the fragment?
At what point does Gogol bring us back to reality and we begin to laugh at the treasure hunter ((He got a cauldron of garbage instead of treasure).
Let's summarize the lesson.
Quiz game by content
1. What was my grandfather’s favorite pastime? (Listen to different stories from passers-by)
2. What happened one day when he went to dance? (At one place his arms and legs refused to obey).
3. Where did the candle burn? (In a cemetery, this is a sure sign that treasure is hidden).
4. How did the grandfather get to the right place the second time? (In his hearts he hit the “Enchanted Place” with a spade, where there was no dancing).
5. What grew in the enchanted place? (Nothing good grew there: “A watermelon is not a watermelon, a pumpkin is not a pumpkin, the devil knows what it is!”)
Literature lesson in 5th grade
N.V. Gogol "Enchanted Place". Real and fantastic in the story.
During the classes
I have now read “Evenings on
Farm near Dikanka." They
amazed me. Here's the real one
gaiety, skill,
ease, without
affectation, without stiffness. A
What poetry in places!
A.S. Pushkin
Organizing time.
Motivation, goal setting.
The teacher turns to the epigraph and announces the purpose of the lesson.
Formulation of the lesson topic by students.
Entry in notebooks: N.V. Gogol "Enchanted Place".
Checking d/z
A pre-prepared student briefly talks about the basic biographical data of N.V. Gogol (multimedia presentation), the rest make notes in notebooks.
Teacher's word
1831 – 1 part
1832 – part 2
Open the table of contents of the collections. Which part is the story you read at home?
Let's take a closer look at the collection. At the beginning there is a preface, from which we learn about who the narrator is (Rudy Panko), what characters will be discussed, etc. And further compiled by the writer himselfdictionary. When you read the story, probably not all the words were clear, so today we will turn to this dictionary for clarification.
6. Preparation for perception of the story
Did you find the plot of the story “The Enchanted Place” interesting?
unusual? What?
(It resembles legends, traditions, fairy tales.)
Listen to one of the legends with a similar plot and answer
questions.
The teacher tells a folk legend about the Golden Chicken treasure.
What is this legend about? (about the enchanted treasure)
What legends about treasures do you know?
(possible children's answers -Annex 1 )
Study of the story
Entry in notebooks: “N.V. Gogol "Enchanted Place".
- Was it easy to understand what you read? Were all the words clear?
You have cards on your tables (give them to everyone before the lesson) with words. Do you know their meaning? Let's find their interpretation in the DICTIONARY at the beginning of the collection. (Chain work)
Conclusion. -What is one of the features of the language of this story? (many Ukrainian words and expressions characteristic of the Ukrainian people)
- Why do you think? (in order to more believably, reliably show the characters, convey the national flavor, this culture is close to N.V. Gogol, because he himself was born in Ukraine, as reported at the beginning of the lesson).
8. Working with illustrations.
And now, using questions and illustrations, we will restore the content of the work. Let's draw up a picture plan using the illustrations proposed for this work and attach them to the board.
What was your grandfather's favorite pastime? (Listen to different stories from passers-by.)
How did the grandfather of his Chumakov acquaintances decide to entertain him? (grandchildren dancing)
And what unexpectedly happened to the grandfather himself during his grandchildren’s dance? (the legs suddenly began to twitch and began to dance on their own )
What unusual happened to grandfather during his dance?(At one place my arms and legs refused to obey, and then I found myself with a smooth field)
Where was the candle burning?(In a cemetery, this is a sure sign that treasure is hidden)
What did grandfather plan to do the next morning? (go back and dig up the treasure, but did not find this place in the field)
How did the grandfather get to the right place the second time?(Hit in the hearts at the “enchanted place” where there was no dancing)
What treasure did your grandfather dig up?(Cauldron with garbage)
What grew in the enchanted place?(Nothing good grew there: “A watermelon is not a watermelon, a pumpkin is not a pumpkin, the devil knows what it is!”)
Work with text.
Expressive reading by a student of a fragmentstories"The third night of the treasure hunt"(from the words “I started digging - the ground is soft...” to the words “...then I just took a breath”)
Reading analysis:
Why did Grandfather Maxim decide that there was a treasure in the enchanted place?
When did he go looking?(late in the evening, I arrived at the place at night)
What do you think a person feels in the dark, alone in an unfamiliar place? How can you explain your grandfather's fears?
Find lines that would help us voice this picture?
What could this really be? Have you ever heard the echoes of your own voice in the forest, in a large room?(Echo)
What did he imagine (see and hear)?
What did he end up digging up?(The boiler is heavy)
How do you see your grandfather? Is it funny to watch him or scary? Read the examples?
What quality failed him?(greed)
Was it funny or scary to read this fragment?
Who is Gogol laughing at? Why?
Statement of the problematic question of the lesson. “What is real in the story and what is fantastic?
Working with the concepts of “reality” and “fiction” (in your own words with teacher correction).
Reality – something that really does not exist in the imagination.
Fantastic - something that is based on imagination, fiction, something magical, incredible.
Note in notebooks:
Drawing up a table “Fantastic and real in the story” and filling it with examples during the conversation.
Where does the story take place? In some kingdom? The setting is real or fantastic?(Ukraine)
ABOUT What time do the events take place? In time immemorial? Support this with quotations from the text. (in the narrator's childhood, spring)
On whose behalf is the story being told? Who is the narrator of the story? Name the other characters. Are they real or fantastic?
Are the everyday objects surrounding them real or not? Give an example from your homework?
What about the clothes of the heroes? Look at our sign?
What events are being described?
What place is the sexton talking about in this story?
Compiling a table
Divide the illustrations into 2 parts: description of real and fantastic events.
Conclusions: what is more in the story? What does N.V. Gogol pay more attention to? Why? Pay attention to the subtitle- “truth”.
(The story “The Enchanted Place” has the subtitle true story. All events are depicted realistically and truthfully. Descriptions of clothing, everyday life and people’s lives are given in detail.)
So why did the writer need to combine true story and fairy tale in one work? Let's think about it.
Finish the words of Pushkin: “A fairy tale is a lie...”(Perhaps Gogol wants to teach us something important, to warn us about something)
Summarizing.
What lesson does Gogol give us?
Dictation recording:
“The Enchanted Place” is a story where the author talks to readers about the illusory nature of ill-gotten wealth. Gogol exposes the thirst for enrichment, the destructive passion for money, which ultimately leads to disaster.
Reflection, announcement of grades
What will you remember about today's lesson?
Complete the sentences:
Today in class I realized...It was difficult for me...I like it…- I'm satisfied
Whose work in class would you like to praise?
My mood is like (choose a card): sunshine, sun with a cloud, cloud
Homework: Prepare a retelling of a memorable episode.
Annex 1
Golden chicken
Well, one old woman from the village was walking, and in front of her there was a chicken running, and all these golden kopecks. She followed this chicken - and wanted to catch it, but she walked away from her - and she followed. Such a golden chicken runs - and into the bird cherry. She looked: she was lost in the cherry tree. She searched and searched, then came in, went looking again, but couldn’t find it. Chicken is so lost.
Then, people who know them say: here the treasure came through Cheryomushki. And they couldn’t find it.<...>
Yes, I went looking for it myself, trying to find it... I would have gotten gold, but I couldn’t find anything.
To wear - not to wear
<...>He served in the army. And then one passing person says:
- In such and such a place in the Olonets province of the Kargopol district there is a stonemason. There is a treasure there: to carry - not to take out and to transport - not to take out. And the place: in the masonry there is a stone in this, and in the stone there is a spring. And in this place there is a treasure.
Well, no one knows what kind of treasure there is: to carry - not to take out and to carry - not to take out. If only the police could be sent there, maybe they would find it.
It spins around but can’t be picked up
There is a treasure like this: the pot is spinning, but it is not given to the hands. It was in the Great Court, in Almozero.
They dug - he was already close. As soon as you take it, it will thunder again - and down. They dig deeper - he goes down again.
You have to take your time, know the words, and approach the icon...
Lamb from under the floor
One family lived calmly and quietly. It was a big family. Parents go to the field and leave their children at home.
One day, parents come home and the children complain that a lamb is playing with them.
- Which lamb? - they ask.
“Yes, from under the floor,” the children answer.
The children ask to get the lamb. But who will believe?
And the legend spread through the village. The village began to live under fear. The children became swollen and did not play. And the lamb kept coming out and playing with the children. The golden ball came out... first as a golden man, then again pretending to be a lamb.
So the years passed. Witches began to emerge from the baths. In empty houses music played and devils danced. Young people spent their evenings at home.
And this news reached the village chieftain. He took the good Cossacks and came to the village to check how true this was. We came to this family and started doing excavations. And they discovered a Damascus steel saber and a basket of gold at a depth of three meters. And it turned out that the one who laid the treasure made a spell and that the treasure should thus be revealed. And so in this house the owner became a rich merchant. All this was bequeathed by the ancestors to the offspring.
hustka
zhupan
Is our summary"Enchanted Place" can be used for reader's diary. Even more brief retelling works are in Gogol’s article “Evenings on a farm near Dikanka”. On our website you can read the full text of this story, as well as the full text of the collection “Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka”, in which it is included
“The Enchanted Place” is the fourth and final story of the second part of Gogol’s “Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka”. It is told again by the deacon of the local church, Foma Grigorievich. The main character of the story is his grandfather, already familiar to readers from the story “The Missing Letter”.
One summer, when Foma Grigorievich was still a small child, his grandfather planted a garden with melons and watermelons along the road and sold the fruits from it to passing merchants. One day, about six carts stopped at the garden, in which old friends of my grandfather were traveling. Delighted by the meeting, the grandfather treated his old friends well, and then started dancing to celebrate. Making, despite his old age, various intricate knees, he reached one place near a bed of cucumbers - and there his grandfather’s legs suddenly became like wood and stopped serving him. Moving back, he accelerated again, but in the same place he again stood as if under a spell. Cursing Satan, the grandfather suddenly heard someone laughing behind him. He looked around and saw that he was not at all where he had stood a moment before, but on the other side of his village. And it was no longer day, but night.
At a distance, the grandfather noticed a grave. A candle suddenly flashed on it, followed by another. According to popular legend, such things happened in places where treasures were buried. The grandfather was very happy, but he had neither a spade nor a shovel with him. Noticing a place with a large branch of treasure, the grandfather returned home.
The next day he went with a spade to dig for treasure. It turned out, however, that the place he noticed did not look quite the same as the day before. The view of the surrounding area was different, and the grandfather could not find the branch he had left yesterday. Turning back, he walked through the garden to the enchanted place where he could not dance, in his anger he hit the ground with a spade - and again found himself on the same outskirts of the village where he had been the day before. Now she looked the same as then. The grandfather immediately saw the grave there and the branch left on it.
The grandfather began to dig in search of treasure and soon came across a cauldron in the ground. “Ah, my dear, that’s where you are!” - the grandfather cried, and these words of his were suddenly repeated in human voices by a bird that flew in from nowhere, a ram’s head hanging from a tree, and a growling bear. A terrible mug appeared from the stump of a neighboring tree, and suddenly the grandfather seemed to see a deep hole nearby, and behind him a huge mountain. Somehow overcoming his fear, he pulled the cauldron with the treasure out of the ground, grabbed it and ran as fast as he could. From behind, someone is lashing his legs with rods...
Gogol "Enchanted Place". Illustration
Meanwhile, in the garden, Thomas, his brothers and their mother, who had come to feed them dinner, wondered: where had grandfather gone again? Having collected the slops in a bucket after dinner, the mother was looking for where to pour it, and suddenly she saw: a tub was moving towards her, as if by itself. The mother thought that the guys were joking and splashed the slop into the tub, but then there was a scream, and instead of the tub she saw in front of her a drenched grandfather with a large cauldron in his hands. However, instead of the gold that the old man hoped to find, there was rubbish and squabbles in the cauldron...
And no matter how much later they sowed, writes Gogol, that enchanted place in the middle of the garden, nothing worthwhile ever grew there. Something sprang up in this place that you can’t even make out: a watermelon is not a watermelon, a pumpkin is not a pumpkin, a cucumber is not a cucumber... the devil knows what it is!
