I view it as a I view dreams using anachronistic Freudian interpretations.
The Shrike Send a noteboard - 16/06/2010 06:43:12 PM
I'm really not sure what to make of it. It feels like I'm missing the point. Assuming that there is one in the first place. 
Gogol seems to want to mock Kovalyov's kind of snobs, as well as people's credulity and fascination with such stories, but that's about all I can make of it. No idea about Ivan Yakovlevich.
It's not a bad story, to be sure - Gogol does good, short descriptions, and it's certainly original and unpredictable. But I imagine I'd appreciate it more if I understood it more.
Gogol seems to want to mock Kovalyov's kind of snobs, as well as people's credulity and fascination with such stories, but that's about all I can make of it. No idea about Ivan Yakovlevich. It's not a bad story, to be sure - Gogol does good, short descriptions, and it's certainly original and unpredictable. But I imagine I'd appreciate it more if I understood it more.
When I studied this story in my literature course my professor was adamantly against any Freudian interpretations of this story. But I prefer to use them and see the nose as a representation for the penis and all that entails when a man loses his penis. Plus, I do see this as a dream so in my more thoughtful moments I try to ascribe no meaning whatsoever to the story and just take it as a series of images following one another with no purpose.
Basically the story is about nothing. And yet a story about nothing is something.
Gogol: The Nose/The Overcoat
- 16/06/2010 02:28:27 PM
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The Nose is... odd.
- 16/06/2010 05:29:51 PM
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I view it as a I view dreams using anachronistic Freudian interpretations.
- 16/06/2010 06:43:12 PM
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Re: I view it as a I view dreams using anachronistic Freudian interpretations.
- 19/06/2010 04:34:27 PM
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I like The Overcoat better.
- 16/06/2010 08:27:38 PM
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The Overcoat, while also fantastical, is easier to understand I think
- 17/06/2010 03:23:11 PM
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I read The Nose last week and will read The Overcoat tonight. Here is a brief
- 18/06/2010 03:44:32 AM
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Re: I read The Nose last week and will read The Overcoat tonight. Here is a brief
- 18/06/2010 04:12:26 AM
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While the stories are entertaining, they didn't leave me with that much to say.
- 13/07/2010 01:52:10 AM
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I keep trying to think of something to add to this discussion and I can't.
- 18/06/2010 02:39:34 PM
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