The Nose

The Nose Sources and ClassicNote Author

  • Simon Karlinsky. The Sexual Labyrinth of Nikolai Gogol. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.
  • Klymentiev, Maksym. “The Dark Side of ‘The Nose’: The Paradigms of Olfactory Perception in Gogol’’s ‘The Nose.’” Canadian Slavonic Papers / Revue Canadienne Des Slavistes, vol. 51, no. 2/3, 2009, pp. 223–41.

  • Muchnic, Helen. “Was Gogol Gay?” New York Review of Books, Mar. 1977, https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1977/03/31/was-gogol-gay/?pagination=false.

  • Shukman Ann. "Gogol’s The Nose or the Devil in the Works." Nikolay Gogol: Text and Context, edited by Janes Grayson and Faith Wigzell, Palgrave Macmillan, 1989, pp. 64-82.

  • Shaklan, Steven Brett. Doomed to Irony, Condemned to Laughter: The Structure and Function of Irony in the Prose Fiction of Nikolai Gogol. 2013. Columbia University, PhD dissertation.
  • "The Magic and Mystery of Gogol’s “The Nose”." Mostly About Stories. July 22, 2019. February 3, 2020. <https://mostlyaboutstories.com/gogol-the-nose-interpretation-summary/>.
  • Elvis Bego. "Gogol, Theory, and the Fantastic." Weird Fiction Review. January 29, 2013. February 4, 2020. <http://weirdfictionreview.com/2013/01/gogol-theory-and-the-fantastic/>.