![]() ![]() ![]() Gogol’s 'Nose' gets an airing around the worldĭespite his success, Gogol had unfulfilled literary ambitions. He had gained popular success with works such as “The Government Inspector,” “The Nose,” “The Overcoat” and the first part of “Dead Souls.” This was a man who wrote the first works of Russian surrealism and the grotesque and was so important to the future development of Russian literature that there is a quote, which some attribute to Dostoyevsky and others to Turgenev, stating, “We all came out of Gogol’s overcoat.” Gogol was already a celebrity when he returned to Russia in 1848 after more than 10 years in Europe. ![]() It is a sad end for a true great of Russian literature, whose success and fame could not save him from a sense of failure and a morbid fear of death that plagued his last days. Meanwhile, the quack doctors treating him prepare another boiling hot bath and send for more pitchers of ice water to dunk over his head. ![]() He strains to pull the half dozen leeches off his nose, but his hands are too firmly tied to the bed. ![]()
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