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Alors qu'il s'apprête à dévorer son pain, un barbier y découvre, lové dans la mie, un nez. L'aurait-il coupé par inadvertance à quelqu'un ? Mieux vaut dans tous les cas ne pas laisser de preuve et s'en débarrasser au plus vite. Il s'empresse de le jeter dans la rivière. Or, un commandant, qui plus est conseiller d'État, se réveille un matin privé de son élongation nasale. Soudain, il aperçoit le fugitif, logé dans un carrosse qui sillonne la ville. Ledit fugitif se dresse dans un costume brodé d'or en tout point semblable à celui d'un haut fonctionnaire... Serait-ce l'oeuvre du diable ? L'inquiétude gagne le propriétaire et, avec lui, le lecteur. Derrière la description attentive et lucide de la vie des hommes d'État, derrière le jeu des apparences, le cauchemar étend son emprise sur le réel. Alors que l'absurde règne ici en maître, l'auteur n'oublie pas d'être caustique vis-à-vis du pouvoir et de ceux qui le détiennent. L'humour corrosif de Gogol bat son plein dans cette nouvelle fantastique et grotesque. Et si le nez n'était pas le nez mais quelque autre éminence du corps mâle ? Toute vanité en serait d'autant plus bafouée.
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Nicolas Gogol
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1809 – 4 March [O.S. 21 February] 1852) was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin.
Gogol used the grotesque in his writings, for example in his works "The Nose", "Viy", "The Overcoat", and "Nevsky Prospekt". These stories, and others such as "Diary of a Madman", have also been noted for their proto-surrealist qualities. According to Viktor Shklovsky, Gogol used the technique of defamiliarization, whereby a writer presents common things in an unfamiliar or strange way so that the reader can gain new perspectives and see the world differently. His early works, such as Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, were influenced by his Ukrainian upbringing, Ukrainian culture and folklore. His later writing satirised political corruption in contemporary Russia (The Government Inspector, Dead Souls), although Gogol also enjoyed the patronage of Tsar Nicholas I, who liked his work. The novel Taras Bulba (1835), the play Marriage (1842), and the short stories "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich", "The Portrait", and "The Carriage" are also among his best-known works.
Many writers and critics have recognized Gogol's deep influence on Russian, Ukrainian and world literature. Gogol's influence was acknowledged by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Franz Kafka, Mikhail Bulgakov, Vladimir Nabokov, Flannery O'Connor and others. Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé said: "We all came out from under Gogol's Overcoat."
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