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« on: March 02, 2004, 01:32:54 PM »
For lack of anything better to do right now, I think I'll start a thread to discuss Gogol. To begin, has anyone here read The Nose?
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« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2004, 06:34:55 PM »
Okay. Anyone out there ever even heard of The Nose?
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« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2004, 10:16:00 PM »
I read the Nose a long time ago. I don't remember much about it, but I think it was good.

"Dead Souls" is almost perfect.
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« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2004, 08:23:05 AM »
It was about a nose that dresses up as a general. It's hilarious.
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« Reply #4 on: March 08, 2004, 08:35:54 AM »
Oh, yeah, and the nose is actually accepted by people as a person.
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« Reply #5 on: March 08, 2004, 08:36:48 AM »
Oh, and the nose actually has a conversation with the man whose face he came off of.
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« Reply #6 on: March 08, 2004, 08:43:50 AM »
From what you guys have said, this story reminds me of Kafka's 'Metamorphosis' where the main character wakes up as a beetle and they are scared of him but accept his transormation as just another change.  Kafka's other works are WEIRD.
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« Reply #7 on: March 08, 2004, 10:18:03 AM »
Yeah, but in The Nose, the guy stays the same, with the exception that his nose is missing. But yeah, I can see the connection.
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« Reply #8 on: March 13, 2004, 02:44:36 PM »
i am reading gogol's autobiography right now and i get the impression that he was an eccentric person_ i am in the front pages and the author of the autobiography describes as very proud of his long nose??  Tongue
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« Reply #9 on: March 15, 2004, 04:52:11 PM »
http://www.imath.kiev.ua/~skolyada/gogol.jpg
I don't see a long nose.
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« Reply #10 on: March 15, 2004, 08:03:20 PM »
that is actually larger than average
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« Reply #11 on: March 16, 2004, 08:40:29 AM »
Gogol was quite a nut, i think.  Eccentric, strange, unique, man.  I haven't read anything of him .. but hope to, in the future.
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« Reply #12 on: March 16, 2004, 12:17:27 PM »
He was a nut like a fox... or is that crazy like a fox. Never mind.
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« Reply #13 on: March 25, 2004, 07:34:32 AM »
I've heard of The Nose, and I'd love to read it, but my library is decidedly subpar.  Angry Not only does it lack The Nose, it lacks almost everything else Gogol. Does anybody know where I might find the e-text?
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« Reply #14 on: March 25, 2004, 09:05:45 AM »
Try this:
http://h42day.100megsfree5.com/texts/russia/gogol/nose.html
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