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Podcast: The Colin McEnroe Show
Episode: An unusually strange event: Nikolai Gogol, ‘The Inspector,’ and ‘The Nose’
Description: “The Nose” may be Nikolai Gogol’s most famous short story. It’s a surrealist — and self-consciously, self-awarely surrealist — story about a man whose nose disappears from his face and reappears in another man’s biscuits. And other places. There’s a moment toward the end of Susanne Fusso’s translation when the narrator says, “The strangest and most incomprehensible thing of all — is that writers can choose such plots.” Well, yes. Nikolai Gogol was a 19th-century Russian/Ukrainian novelist and playwright. One of his best-known plays, The Inspector, opens March 13 at Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven. And...