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FOLLOW THAT NOSE!

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20021020
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FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY IS supposed to have said, "We have all come out from under Gogol's `Overcoat.' " This encomium may make Nicolai Gogol, whose satirical novel "Dead Souls" and short story "The Overcoat" helped establish Russian prose writing, sound like a flasher. Recently, however, Russian police grew alarmed about another of Gogol's body parts: his nose. Gogol's 1836 story "The Nose" is a proto-Surrealist fable in which a civil servant is outraged to discover that his own schnozz is traipsing around St. Petersburg with a higher civil ranking than he has. In 1994, the city of St. ...

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