"The Nose" is a satirical, grotesque short story written by Nikolai Gogol, a 19th-century Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright, during his time living in St. Petersburg. The story was written between 1835 and 1836 and tells the story of a St. Petersburg bureaucrat who wakes up one day to find that his nose is missing. The story is primarily concerned with the social ramifications of the Table of Ranks, which was a new class system introduced by Peter the Great meant to give those without noble birth higher social status. The story shows how these new ranks created complex bureaucracies in Russian public life, and incentivized cynical social networking. The story also...
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