Only a few pages into The Nose, I already felt myself making connections to the still-fresh-in-my-head Metamorphosis. The obvious similarity between the two was the ridiculously absurd storyline. When I first read that Kovalev’s nose had fallen off, I immediately pictured … Continue reading
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On the surface, The Nose is the wonderfully bizarre surrealist tale of a Russian mid-level civil servant who wakes up without a nose and discovers it traveling through the streets of St. Petersburg dressed as a high-ranking member of the civil service. When I … Continue reading
Reading The Nose, I had a sudden episode of deja vu, where I read it as the same tired, and sleepy awakening as Metamorphosis as the short story opened- the same mundane suddenly interrupted by the seemingly impossible and extremely … Continue reading
This story was hilarious. Starting from the beginning of the play I was immediately engaged as the humor of the play shielded some serious messages. With the first lines hinting towards a setting of Soviet Russia, I couldn’t help but … Continue reading
This whole story seemed a bit like the childhood game of “I got your nose!” The whole story was told in a satirical style so that it was easier to accept this silliness, only later upon sinking in can … Continue reading
I read the libretto version of The Nose first, and I was in two moods the whole time: confused or amused. Sometimes both. The entire opera was rather confusing—I mean, it started off with a nose baked into bread. How … Continue reading
As I read The Nose, the first scenes that formed in my mind were similar to those in dramatic, slap-stick sitcoms. I envisioned a gaudy yellow room with a primly dressed Prascovia Osipovna sweetly pulling a rack of fresh rolls … Continue reading
The Nose was just another in what seems to be a series of unorthodox (yet oddly interesting) stories. At face value it seems, as Gogol himself says, ridiculous and pointless. Yet there is a little something more behind this seemingly … Continue reading
When I first started reading Gogol’s “The Nose,” I thought the description of Ivan Jakovlevitch’s morning was pretty typical. However, once I reached the part where he discovered the nose in his bread, I realized that this story would be … Continue reading
Ivan found a nose in his bread. It did not surprise me. “What’s the big deal?” Gregor woke up one morning as a giant cockroach. Clearly, these Eastern European writers, (Gogol and Kafka) don’t value a realistic storyline very heavily. … Continue reading