place
Caucasus
also: Kaukázus
The Caucasus mountain range between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea; in 'Chronicle of the Fate of Two Coins' it provides the bleak mining-district setting — 'white rock-walls,' a 'turbid flood,' and wretched hovels whose walls are hung with holy carvings like 'the face of misery laughing in mockery at divine providence.'
Reading notes
- Tales (Five Stories) §7 Caucasus
The Caucasus mountain range between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea; in Madách's tale the setting is a mining district in the Caucasus, whose bleakness ('like the face of misery laughing in mockery at divine providence') provides the social-realist frame of the story.