The Nose (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Nikolai Gogol
- First Published: 1836
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: The 1830's
- Setting: St. Petersburg, Russia
- Principal Characters: Collegiate Assessor Platon Kuzmich Kovalyov, Ivan Yakovlevich, Praskovya Osipovna, Ivan, Pelageya Podtochin, A police officer
- Genres: Short fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Barbershops or barbers, Satire, Russia or Russian people, Bureaucracy or bureaucrats, Propaganda
- Locales: St. Petersburg, Russia
The Story
“A most extraordinary thing happened in St. Petersburg on the twenty-fifth of March.” Ivan Yakovlevich, a Russian barber in St. Petersburg, wakes up in his house and prepares to eat the breakfast prepared by his wife. As he cuts into a fresh loaf of bread, he finds a human nose inside. Although confused and distraught by the discovery, the barber recognizes the nose as that of Collegiate Assessor Platon Kuzmich Kovalyov, a government clerk whom he shaves every Wednesday and Sunday. Fearing his wife's wrath and further complications, Ivan Yakovlevich gets dressed...
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