» Nikolai Gogol, “The Nose” (1835-1836); “The Overcoat ...
Although I enjoyed Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls when I read it in grad school during the late 1990s, I never got around to reading any of his short fiction until 2010. . In reading the stories found within The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories, I found a few elements in common among the two stories being discussed, “The Nose” and “The ...