The body as an object in N.V. Gogol’s story "The nose"

The article analyzes the problem of corporeality in N.V. Gogol's Petersburg story "The Nose", which represents a special variant of anthropological forms in the classic's artistic world. The tendencies of body fragmentation, noted in the writer's early prose, lead to the transformation of the body into an object. The associated tendency is endowing body parts with animacy, including agency - reaches its peculiar climax in this story. Attention is drawn to the noticeable psychological changes in Major Kovalyov and even the emergence of personality in the moments of body deformation. In connection with the principle of phantasmagoric representation of the world in Russian literature of the 1830s, the Gogol's peculiar phantasmagoria of the body is highlighted, including the positive aspects of the writer's artistic experiment.