Nos BookRags | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 39 pages of analysis & critique of Nos BookRags.

Nos BookRags | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 39 pages of analysis & critique of Nos BookRags.
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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 article had two initial premises. The first was that careful attention must be paid to the very character of the story's strange subject, the very...

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