鈥淭he Nose鈥� may be Nikolai Gogol鈥檚 most famous short story. It鈥檚 a surrealist 鈥� and self-consciously, self-awarely surrealist 鈥� story about a man whose nose disappears from his face and reappears in another man鈥檚 biscuits. And other places. There鈥檚 a moment toward the end of when the narrator says, 鈥淭he strangest and most incomprehensible thing of all 鈥� is that writers can choose such plots.鈥�
Well, yes.
Nikolai Gogol was a 19th-century Russian/Ukrainian novelist and playwright. One of his best-known plays, , opens March 13 at Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven.
And that short story, 鈥淭he Nose,鈥� might well be intertwined with the mythology of our little public radio show.
This hour, a look at the writer Nikolai Gogol.
GUESTS:
- Susanne Fusso: Professor of Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies at Wesleyan University and the author of a number of books, including and a recent translation, The Nose and Other Stories by Nikolai Gogol
- Yura Kordonsky: The adaptor and director of the Yale Repertory Theatre鈥檚 production of The Inspector
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