Nos, Nikolai Gogol - Herbert E. Bowman (essay date 1953)
Herbert E. Bowman (essay date 1953)
SOURCE: Bowman, Herbert E. “‘The Nose.’” Slavonic and East European Review 31, no. 76 (December 1953): 204–11.
[In the following essay, Bowman surveys the critical reaction to “The Nose” and offers his own interpretation of Gogol's story.]
‘… Nevertheless, if you think over all this, there really is something in it.’
—N. Gogol', ‘The Nose’
I
In September 1836 Aleksandr Pushkin published in his literary journal The Contemporary a story entitled ‘The Nose’, written by Nikolay Gogol'. Pushkin prefaced the story with a note, which constitutes at the same time something like the blurb of an eminent fellow-author and the inducement of a cautious editor: ‘For a long time N. V. Gogol' would not agree to publishing this farce. But we have found in it so much that is unexpected, fantastic, amusing, and original, that we have...
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