Open AccessSOME THOUGHTS ON THE NOSE BY N. V. GOGOL
Author(s) -
Yuri Kleiner
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
russkaâ literatura
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.101
H-Index - 2
ISSN - 0131-6095
DOI - 10.31860/0131-6095-2021-3-161-177
Subject(s) - dream , motif (music) , realization (probability) , nose , history , literature , art , art history , psychology , aesthetics , mathematics , geology , paleontology , statistics , neuroscience
The three versions of The Nose by Nikolai Gogol refl ect the evolution of the author’s concept and its realization, from a «dream» to an unmotivated incident. The preservation of the elements of the dream from the original version in the 1836 and 1842 publications suggests the presence of the motif in the storylines of both characters, but in an encrypted form. For encoding, the 12 days’ difference between the Julian and Gregorian calendars (March 25 — April 7 in the 1842 edition) was used, which accommodated the events of one night in the original version.