The Nose (Annotated)

Nikolai Gogol's "The Nose" is one of the great comic masterpieces of nineteenth-century Russian prose, a surreal tale in which Major Kovalyov awakens to find his nose missing, only to encounter it later parading through St. Petersburg as a higher-ranking official. Written in Gogol's brisk, ironic, and disorienting style, the story fuses bureaucratic satire, urban fantasy, and grotesque absurdity, ...