Short Fiction · Character
The Fat Patzuck
A Cossack sorcerer of voracious appetite who devours dumplings by magic and offers Vakoola counsel in his errand for the tsaritsa's shoes.
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Also known as Patzuck, This fat Patzuck
First appearance: the night of christmas eve
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The fat Patzuck is one of Gogol's most grotesque and comic figures, a Cossack who eats dumplings without lifting a finger and whose bulk seems to mock the very idea of magic. He appears as an advisor to Vakoola in his…
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