Nos, Nikolai Gogol - Sergei Bocharov (essay date 1992)
Sergei Bocharov (essay date 1992)
SOURCE: Bocharov, Sergei. “Around ‘The Nose.’” In Essays on Gogol: Logos and the Russian Word, edited by Susanne Fusso and Priscilla Meyer, pp. 19–39. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1992.
[In the following essay, Bocharov considers Gogol's concern with noses as a recurring motif in his fiction, particularly in the short story “The Nose.”]
Skryeshi ikh v taine litsa Tvoego ot miatezha chelovecheska.
—Ps. 30:21
In the covert of thy presence [litso, “face”] thou hidest them from the plots of men.
—Ps. 31:20
These Remarks are a continuation of my attempt to connect the famous enigma of “The Nose” with Gogol's philosophy of humanity, an attempt begun in my article “Zagadka ‘Nosa’ i taina litsa” (“The Enigma of ‘The Nose’ and the Mystery of the Face”).1 That...
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