He immediately recognizes that the nose belongs to one of his steadiest customers, Major Kovalyov. He cuts the loaf in half and discovers a nose buried within.
To his delight, his wife has made a loaf of bread. In the first, Ivan Yakovlevich, a barber, wakes up on the morning of March 25 and goes to the kitchen to eat breakfast with his wife. One of Russia’s first modern absurdist stories, “The Nose” is now ubiquitous in St. The author frequently referred to it comically in his correspondences.
Literary scholars and historians have speculated that Gogol chose the nose as the plot’s central device because he was anxious about his own nose, which was unusually shaped. The story was first published in an experimental literary magazine The Contemporary, which was owned by the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. Petersburg, the story follows a government official, Collegiate Assessor Kovalyov (colloquially known as “Major Kovalyov”), whose nose detaches itself from his face and escapes.
“The Nose” is an 1836 short story by Ukrainian-Russian dramatist and pioneer of Russian literary surrealism Nikolai Gogol.
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