The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes: “He might have set not just 'The Nose', but the whole of Gogol.”
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri: “Well, we're going to have to read 'The Overcoat.' Either that or 'The Nose.'”
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom: “it is not the best ofGogol, which may be "Old-World Landowners" or the insane "The Nose," which begins when a barber, at breakfast, dis covers a customer's nose”
The Breast by Philip Roth: “I summarized for him 'The Nose,' recounting how Gogol's hero awakens one morning missing his nose, how he sets out to look for it in St. Petersburg”
The Uses of Literature by Italo Calvino: “Grouped with Alice in Wonderland and Kafka's Metamorphoses as fantasy that unravels a logic with rules”