Open AccessCiało i jego fragmenty w prozie Mikołaja Gogola
Author(s) -
Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
kultury wschodniosłowiańskie oblicza i dialog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2391-470X
DOI - 10.14746/kw.2017.7.17
Subject(s) - face (sociological concept) , perception , limit (mathematics) , nose , aesthetics , perspective (graphical) , history , psychology , art , sociology , visual arts , social science , mathematics , medicine , anatomy , mathematical analysis , neuroscience
The article presents a perspective of somatic present in the prose of Nikolai Gogol. The body is treated here as a project — a collection of body fragments. Particular attention is paid to the figure of nose, which occurs in two selected short stories entitledNose and Diary of a Madman. Therefore, any attempt to emancipate the body part is a threat to the need to preserve the face. Nose is a sense of belonging. This part of the body is thus a limit to what we used to be referred to as belonging to us. Its location creates the last bastion of perception, the selfness.