What is Nikolai Gogol’s The Nose About? (Or the Smell of Law)
Elena Loizidou
Chapter from the book: Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, A et al. 2023. SMELL.
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Chapter from the book: Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, A et al. 2023. SMELL.
The chapter reads Nikolai Gogol’s short story ‘The Nose’ as a metaphor about judgement. Police officers tend to use their noses to sniff out criminality. This sniffing I argue can be both beneficent and prejudicial to our society.
Loizidou, E. 2023. What is Nikolai Gogol’s The Nose About? (Or the Smell of Law). In: Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, A et al (eds.), SMELL. London: University of Westminster Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16997/book68.i
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Published on Dec. 4, 2023