Words cannot be used to describe how I felt while reading The Nose by Nikolai Gogol. As soon as I read “He poked two fingers in and pulled out – a nose!” I had to stop reading and put my … Continue reading
Daily Archives: October 9, 2013
Confusion. That’s what I felt while reading Nikolai Gogol’s The Nose. The story didn’t exactly follow a logical pattern. One moment there was a man who discovered a nose, a nose that he could hold in his hand. The next … Continue reading
This story is definitely on my list of strange symbolic tales. The idea of my barber accidentally cutting off my nose and then finding it in his bread is a scary image. Then waking up without my nose and seeing … Continue reading
When I started reading Nicholas Gogol’s The Nose, I didn’t know what to expect because it began with a barber, Ivan Jakovlevitch, having a normal conversation with his wife, Prasskovna Ossipovna. The description of Ivan’s cheap and dirty clothing reminded … Continue reading
Nikolai Gogol’s “The Nose” is an intriguing story about a man who loses his nose and struggles to adjust without it. Although I found the plotline quite strange, I was not prompted to question why I was reading the story. … Continue reading