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The main character of the story, a sloppy barber. This is an ordinary Russian workman who was a terrible drunkard and slut. Although he shaved other people's chins daily, he always left his own unshaven. He did not wear a frock coat, as was customary, but had a piebald tailcoat with a shiny collar, the buttons of which barely hung on strings.
The main character of the story, collegiate assessor. He preferred to call himself Major. The author attributes this character to idle parasites and careerists, often strolling along the Nevsky. He is akin to such characters as Lieutenant Pirogov or Khlestakov, who sought to get the maximum pleasure from life without making any effort. He even came to St. Petersburg for a profitable marriage and a higher rank.
The nose that Kovalyov lost, he wore an expensive uniform, pantaloons and a sword. He had the rank of state councillor. I got a fake passport and wanted to leave for Riga, but a vigilant policeman grabbed it and took it to the owner Kovalev. At first, he did not return to his place, but on April 7 in the morning, as mysteriously as he disappeared, he returned to his place on his face.
Quarter warden
A policeman of noble appearance, wore sideburns, a hat and a sword. It was he who noticed how Ivan Yakovlevich threw something from the bridge into the river. Then he intercepted his nose when he was about to leave for Riga with a fake passport.
gray-haired official
An official who accepts advertisements in a newspaper. Refused to publish Kovalev's announcement about the loss of his nose, as this could damage the newspaper.
Private bailiff
He was very fond of sugar and paper money. He refused to deal with the case of the loss of Kovalev's nose, as he liked to sleep after dinner.
Doctor
I could not return Kovalev's nose back to his face, and then tried to buy it from the owner.
The story of Nikolai Gogol "The Nose" is one of the most famous works of the writer. This absurdist story was written in 1832-1833.
Initially, the Moscow Observer magazine refused to print this work, and the author decided to publish it in the Sovremennik magazine. Gogol had to hear a lot of cruel criticism addressed to him, so the story was subjected to significant changes several times.
What is the story "The Nose" about?
The story "The Nose" consists of three parts and tells about an incredible incident that happened to a collegiate assessor Kovalev. The Nose begins with the fact that one morning a St. Petersburg barber discovers that there is a nose in his bread, and subsequently realizes that this nose belongs to his client, Major Kovalev. All subsequent time, the barber tries to get rid of his nose by any possible means, but it turns out that he constantly drops his ill-fated nose and everyone around him constantly points it out to him. The barber was able to get rid of him only when he threw him into the Neva.
Meanwhile, the awakened Kovalev discovers the loss of his own nose, and somehow covering his face, goes in search of him. Gogol shows us how a collegiate assessor diligently searches for his nose all over St. Petersburg, and his feverish thoughts about how terrible it is to be in such a position and not be able to appear to people he knows in front of his eyes. And when Kovalev finally meets his nose, he simply does not pay attention to him, and no requests from the major to return to his place have no effect on the nose.
The protagonist tries to advertise the missing nose in a newspaper, but the editorial office refuses him because such a fantastic situation could harm the reputation of the newspaper. Kovalev even sends a letter to a lady friend, Podtochina, accusing her of stealing his nose in retaliation for his refusal to marry her daughter. In the end, the police officer brings the nose to its owner and tells him how hard it is to catch the nose, which was about to go to Riga. After the warden leaves, the protagonist tries to put his nose in place, but nothing works out for him. And then Kovalev falls into terrifying despair, he understands that life is now meaningless, because without a nose he is nobody.
The position of a person in society
It was the absurdity and fantastic nature of the plot that caused such abundant criticism of the writer. But it should be understood that this story has a double meaning, and Gogol's intention is much deeper and more instructive than it seems at first glance. It is thanks to such an incredible plot that Gogol manages to draw attention to an important topic at that time - the position of a person in society, his status and the dependence of the individual on him. From the story it becomes clear that the collegiate assessor Kovalev, who for greater importance called himself a major, devotes his whole life to his career and social status, he has no other hopes and priorities.
Kovalev loses his nose - something that, it would seem, cannot be lost for no apparent reason - and now he cannot appear in a decent place, in a secular society, at work and in any other official institution. But he fails to agree with the nose, the nose pretends that it does not understand what its owner is talking about and ignores it. With this fantastic plot, Gogol wants to emphasize the shortcomings of the then society, the shortcomings of thinking and consciousness of that layer of society to which the collegiate assessor Kovalev belonged.
The story "The Nose" by N.V. Gogol was written in 1832 - 1833. The work was first published in 1836 in the Sovremennik magazine. The story is one of the brightest satirical absurdist works of Russian literature.
Main characters
Platon Kuzmich Kovalev- "Major", collegiate assessor who served in the Caucasus. He always made sure that his appearance was impeccable. Kovalev came to St. Petersburg in order to get a vice-governor's or "executor's" position, he wanted to marry a rich bride.
Ivan Yakovlevich - " barber”, “terrible drunkard” and “big cynic”, always walked unshaven, looked untidy.
Chapter 1
On the 25th of March, an unusually strange incident happened in St. Petersburg. The barber Ivan Yakovlevich finds in fresh bread the nose of collegiate assessor Kovalev, whom he shaved on Wednesdays and Sundays.
Ivan Yakovlevich is trying to quietly throw away the find, but the man is constantly interfered with. In desperation, the barber goes to Isakievsky Bridge and throws a rag with his nose into the Neva. Rejoicing at the resolution of the problem, the barber suddenly notices the quarter warden at the end of the bridge and the hero is detained.
Chapter 2
Waking up in the morning, collegiate assessor Kovalev, wanting to look at a pimple that popped up on his nose, finds an absolutely smooth place instead of a nose. Kovalev immediately goes to the Chief of Police. On the way, near one of the houses, the hero notices a carriage, from which a gentleman in uniform jumps out and runs up the stairs. In amazement, Kovalev realizes that it was his nose. Two minutes later, the nose came out in a “uniform embroidered with gold” with a sword on its side. "From a hat with a plume, one could conclude that he was considered to be in the rank of state councilor." Nose got into the carriage and left for the Kazan Cathedral. Following the nose, Kovalev also enters the cathedral and sees how the nose “prayed with an expression of the greatest piety.” Kovalev delicately turned to the nose, trying to persuade him to return to his place, but the nose pretended not to understand what was being said, at the end saying that he was "on his own."
In desperation, Kovalev decides to submit an advertisement for the missing nose to the newspaper, but he is refused, since such an article “may lose reputation for the newspaper.” Wanting to somehow cheer up the distressed Kovalev, an official working in the newspaper invites him to sniff "snuff". Indignant, the hero went to a private bailiff. The private bailiff received Kovalev rather dryly, saying "that a decent person's nose will not be torn off and that there are many majors in the world who do not even have underwear in decent condition and drag around all sorts of obscene places."
Kovalev decides that the “headquarters officer Podtochina” is to blame for what happened, who wanted to marry the hero to her daughter. According to the assessor, she "hired some witches-women for this." Kovalev writes a threatening letter to Podtochina, but, having received an answer, he realizes that she has nothing to do with the loss of her nose.
Suddenly, a police official comes to Kovalev, who at the beginning of the work stood at the end of the Isakievsky bridge, and says that the hero’s nose was found: “it was intercepted almost on the road. He was already getting into the stagecoach and wanted to leave for Riga. The official brought it with him. Kovalev is very happy with the find, but all his attempts to "put the nose in its place" are unsuccessful. The doctor, who felt that it was better to leave everything as it is, does not help Kovalev either. Rumors quickly spread around St. Petersburg that the assessor's nose was seen in different parts of the city.
Chapter 3
On April 7, Kovalev's nose, in an unknown way, was again in its place. Now Ivan Yakovlevich shaves the man with extreme care, trying not to touch his nose. “And after that, Major Kovalev was seen forever in good humor, smiling, resolutely pursuing all pretty ladies.”
“This is what happened in the northern capital of our vast state! Now, only by considering everything, we see that there is a lot of improbability in it. However, “whatever you say, such incidents happen in the world; rare, but they do happen.
Conclusion
In the story "The Nose", Gogol sharply ridicules the shortcomings of his contemporary society, for which such types of people as collegiate assessor Kovalev were typical. The fact that Kovalev, according to the plot of the story, loses his nose is not accidental - by this the author emphasizes the spiritual and mental poverty of the hero, for whom appearance was his only advantage.
A brief retelling of Gogol's "Nose" will be of interest to schoolchildren, students and all connoisseurs of Russian literature.
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Characters in N. V. Gogol's story "The Nose" and a brief review. and got the best answer
Answer from Maxim Zulikov[guru]
well, the nose and the gogol itself
Answer from Artem Zavadsky[guru]
Collegiate assessor Kovalev - a careerist, who calls himself a major for greater importance - suddenly wakes up in the morning without a nose. In place of the nose is a completely smooth place. “God knows what, what rubbish! he exclaims, spitting. “At least there was already something instead of a nose, otherwise nothing! ..” He goes to the chief police chief to report the loss, but along the way he unexpectedly meets his own nose in an embroidered gold uniform, a hat of a state adviser and with a sword. The nose jumps into the carriage and heads to the Kazan Cathedral, where he prays devoutly. Amazed Kovalev - behind him. Shy, the collegiate assessor asks the nose to return, but he, with all the importance inherent in a conversation with a junior rank, declares that he does not understand what is at stake and slips away from the owner.
Kovalev goes to the newspaper to advertise the missing nose, but they refuse him, fearing that such a scandalous announcement will damage the reputation of the publication. Kovalev rushes to the private bailiff, but he, being out of sorts, only declares that they won’t tear off a decent person’s nose if he doesn’t drag around the devil knows where.
Heartbroken, Kovalev returns home, and an unexpected joy happens: a police officer suddenly enters and brings in a nose wrapped in a piece of paper. According to him, the nose was intercepted on the way to Riga with a fake passport. Kovalev is immensely happy, but prematurely: the nose does not want to stick to its rightful place, and even the invited doctor cannot help. Only many days later, in the morning, the nose again appears on the face of its owner, just as inexplicably as it disappeared. And Kovalev's life returns to its normal course.
Answer from Eh-eh! Great, mighty[guru]
The nose in the story symbolizes an empty external decency, an image that, as it turns out, may well exist without any inner personality. And what's more, it turns out that an ordinary collegiate assessor has this image as much as three ranks higher than the personality itself, and flaunts in the uniform of a state councilor, and even with a sword. On the contrary, the unfortunate owner of the nose, having lost such an important detail of his appearance, is completely lost, because without a nose "... you will not appear in an official institution, in a secular society, you will not walk along Nevsky Prospekt." For Kovalev, who, above all in life, strives for a successful career, this is a tragedy. In The Nose, Gogol seeks to show the image of an empty and pompous person who loves external showiness, chasing high status and favor of higher ranks. He ridicules a society in which a high position and rank are valued much more than the person who possesses them.
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The history of the creation of "The Nose" is a satirical absurdist story written by Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol in 1832-1833. This work is often called the most mysterious story. In 1835, the Moscow Observer magazine refused to publish Gogol's story, calling it "bad, vulgar and trivial." But, unlike The Moscow Observer, Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin believed that the work "had so much unexpected, fantastic, funny and original" that he persuaded the author to publish the story in the Sovremennik magazine in 1836.
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(Gogol and the Nose. Caricature) The story "The Nose" was subjected to severe and repeated criticism, as a result, a number of details in the work were altered by the author: for example, the meeting between Major Kovalev and the Nose was moved from the Kazan Cathedral to Gostiny Dvor, and the ending of the story changed several times.
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Brilliant grotesque This is one of N.V. Gogol. But if in early works it was used to create an atmosphere of mystery and mystery in the narrative, then in a later period it turned into a way of satirical reflection of the surrounding reality. The story "The Nose" is a clear confirmation of this. The inexplicable and strange disappearance of the nose from the physiognomy of Major Kovalev and its incredible independent existence separately from the owner suggest the unnatural order in which a high status in society means much more than the person himself. In this state of affairs, any inanimate object can suddenly acquire significance and weight if it acquires its proper rank. This is the main problem of the story "The Nose".
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Theme of the work So what is the meaning of such an incredible plot? The main theme of Gogol's story "The Nose" is the loss by the character of a piece of his "I". Probably, this happens under the influence of evil spirits. An organizing role in the plot is assigned to the motive of persecution, although Gogol does not indicate the specific embodiment of supernatural power. The mystery captures readers literally from the first phrase of the work, it is constantly reminded of, it reaches its climax ... but there is no clue even in the finale. Covered in obscurity is not only the mysterious separation of the nose from the body, but also how it could exist independently, and even in the status of a high-ranking official. Thus, the real and the fantastic in Gogol's story "The Nose" are intertwined in the most unthinkable way.
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Characteristics of the protagonist The protagonist of the work is a desperate careerist, ready to do anything for a promotion. He managed to get the rank of collegiate assessor without an exam, thanks to his service in the Caucasus. The cherished goal of Kovalev is to marry profitably and become a high-ranking official. In the meantime, in order to give himself more weight and significance, he everywhere calls himself not a collegiate assessor, but a major, knowing about the advantage of military ranks over civilian ones. “He could forgive everything that was said about himself, but did not apologize in any way if it related to rank or rank,” the author writes about his hero.
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N.V. Gogol's wonderful story "The Nose" consists of three parts and tells about the amazing events that happened to the collegiate assessor Kovalev. Ivan Yakovlevich is surprised to learn that the nose belongs to one of his clients, collegiate assessor Kovalev. The barber tries to get rid of his nose: he throws it away, but he is constantly pointed out that he has dropped something. With great difficulty, Ivan Yakovlevich manages to throw his nose off the bridge into the Neva.
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It seems that Gogol not without reason made St. Petersburg the scene of action of the story "The Nose". In his opinion, only here the indicated events could "occur", only in St. Petersburg they do not see the person himself behind the rank. Gogol brought the situation to the point of absurdity - the nose turned out to be a fifth-class official, and those around him, despite the obviousness of his "inhuman" nature, behave with him as with a normal person, in accordance with his status. (Kovalev and Nose)
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Meanwhile, the collegiate assessor wakes up and cannot find his nose. He is shocked. Covering his face with a handkerchief, Kovalev goes out into the street. He is very upset by what happened, because now he will not be able to appear in the world, and besides, he has many familiar ladies, for some of whom he is not averse to hanging around. Suddenly he meets his own nose, dressed in a uniform and pantaloons, the nose gets into the carriage. Kovalev is in a hurry for the nose, it turns out in the cathedral. (Nose comes out of the carriage)
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Nose behaves as befits a "significant person" in the rank of State Councilor: he makes visits, prays in the Kazan Cathedral "with an expression of the greatest piety", calls in the department, is going to leave for Riga on someone else's passport. Nobody cares where he came from. Everyone sees in him not only a person, but also an important official. It is interesting that Kovalev himself, despite his efforts to expose him, approaches him with fear in the Kazan Cathedral and generally treats him as a person.
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The grotesque in the story also lies in surprise and, one might say, absurdity. From the very first line of the work, we see a clear designation of the date: "March 25th" - this does not immediately imply any fantasy. And then there's the missing nose. There was some kind of sharp deformation of everyday life, bringing it to complete unreality. The absurdity lies in an equally sharp change in the size of the nose. If on the first pages it is found by the barber Ivan Yakovlevich in a pie (that is, it has a size that is quite consistent with a human nose), then at the moment Major Kovalev sees him for the first time, his nose is dressed in a uniform, suede trousers, a hat, and even has himself a sword - which means that he is as tall as an ordinary man. (missing nose)
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The last appearance of the nose in the story - and again it is small. The quarterly brings it wrapped in a piece of paper. It didn't matter to Gogol why the nose had suddenly grown to human size, and it didn't matter why it shrunk again. The central moment of the story is precisely the period when the nose was perceived as a normal person.
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The plot of the story is conditional, the idea itself is absurd, but this is exactly what Gogol's grotesque consists of and, despite this, is quite realistic. Chernyshevsky said that true realism is possible only when life is depicted in "the forms of life itself."
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Gogol extraordinarily pushed the boundaries of conventionality and showed that this conventionality serves admirably for the knowledge of life. If in this absurd society everything is determined by rank, then why can't this fantastically absurd organization of life be reproduced in a fantastic plot? Gogol shows that it is not only possible, but also quite expedient. And thus the forms of art ultimately reflect the forms of life.
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Hints of a brilliant author There are many satirical subtleties in Gogol's story, transparent allusions to the realities of his contemporary time. For example, in the first half of the 19th century, glasses were considered an anomaly, giving the appearance of an officer or official some kind of inferiority. In order to wear this accessory, a special permit was required. If the heroes of the work exactly followed the instructions and corresponded to the form, then the Nose in uniform acquired for them the importance of a significant person. But as soon as the police chief "left" the system, violated the severity of his uniform and put on glasses, he immediately noticed that in front of him was just a nose - a part of the body, useless without its owner. This is how the real and the fantastic are intertwined in Gogol's story "The Nose". No wonder the author's contemporaries read this extraordinary work.
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Literary excursion The barber, who found his nose in baked bread, lives on Voznesensky Prospekt, and gets rid of it on St. Isaac's Bridge. Major Kovalev's apartment is located on Sadovaya Street. The conversation between the major and the nose takes place in the Kazan Cathedral. A flowery waterfall of ladies pours down the sidewalk of Nevsky Prospekt from Policeman to Anichkin Bridge. Dancing chairs danced on Konyushennaya Street. According to Kovalev, it is on the Voskresensky Bridge that vendors sell peeled oranges. Students of the Surgical Academy ran to look at the nose in the Tauride Garden. The major buys an order ribbon in Gostiny Dvor. The “twin nose” of the St. Petersburg version is located on Andreevsky Spusk in Kyiv. The literary lantern "Nose" is installed on the street. Gogol in Brest.
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Kovalev's nose was installed in 1995 on the facade of house No. 11 on Voznesensky Prospekt, St. Petersburg)