6/11/2023 0 Comments The nose gogol![]() ![]() Why a nose? Well, Gogol had an odd shaped nose, which we know because he himself ridiculed its appearance in his letters, and I take that as pretty good evidence other people made fun of it too. But, worse than all this, is the fact that that his former nose is now wearing a uniform, and the nose’s rank is higher than that of the “Major” himself. ![]() Petersburg streets and spies what he is sure is his nose (also muffled) leaving a carriage and entering into the house of an important official. The story then shifts to the awakening Major Kolyakov, who soon realizes his nose has absconded, leaving behind nothing but a space in the middle of his face “as flat as a pancake.” Soon-muffled, concealing his shame-he goes out onto the St. Our tale begins as Yakovlevich the Barber cuts into his breakfast roll and recognizes-concealed inside his morning pastry-the wandering nose of “Major” Kolyakov the College Inspector, which he then discards surreptitiously, near the river. ![]() Petersburg (including the essential bridges, buildings and monuments), a savage criticism of the way petty bureaucrats jockeyed for position within Russia’s complex government classification system, as well as a critical examination of the nature of story-telling itself. Gogol’s “The Nose” (1835), is an early triumph of surrealism, daring and delightful in the way it jars and disjoins one reality from another, but it is also a vivid realistic depiction of the sights and sounds of early 19th century St. ![]()
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