Dialogization and Laughter in the Dark, or How Gogol's Nose Was Made: Parody and Literary Evolution in Bachtin's Theory of the Novel

What Would It Be Like to Lose One’s Nose? Gogol’s The Nose and the Astronomer Tycho Brahe

“…Gogol wrote this story since he had an oddly shaped nose, which was often the subject of self-deprecating jokes in his letters [ 1 ]. Gogol opted for a comedy marked by the fantastic.…”