In order to hide unpleasant evidence, Ivan Yakovlevich wraps the nose and sets out to dispose of it. At first, he is frightened supposing that this can involve him in a crime. One day, his barber, Ivan Yakovlevich, finds a human nose inside his breakfast which his wife has just serviced. The short story depicts events from life of Collegiate Assessor Kovalyov. Petersburg could be satisfactory explained only by reference to fantastic and sur-real stories “(Hardy and Stanton 128).
In magical realism, a supernatural or inexplicable event gives rise to a series of realistic consequences but the realistic detail of life in St. Magical realism helps him to intertwine reality with fantasy and present serious events as comic ones, “In “The Nose,” Gogol inverts the typical dynamic of modern magical realism.
However, Gogol presents everything from a slightly different perspective. It seems that there is nothing funny in the fact that a person wakes up without a nose one day on the contrary, this fact is supposed to evoke compassion. The events which take place in the story can be regarded as both comical and serious.
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