The innumerable amount of interpretations each makes a claim which might be true, but at the expense of other aspects of the short stories. There are many critics who have made the attempt to create meaning out of the two short stories, but to date, there does not seem to be much overarching interpretations which are distinctively Gogol. Two short stories from the Petersburg Tales will be discussed – The Nose and The Overcoat. Often collectively known as the Petersburg Tales, these novels have generated the interest of many critics. In 1835, Gogol published a collection of short stories reflecting the life of St. Best known for his novel Dead Souls, Gogol is deemed as a better writer than Pushkin by Nabokov: “The prose of Pushkin is three-dimensional that of Gogol is four-dimensional, at least.” (Nabokov 145). A name which deserves to be added to the list but is often denied equal credit is Nikolai Gogol. When one thinks of Russian literature, names such as Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alexander Pushkin, and Vladimir Nabokov come to mind. Ambiguity in absurdity : Gogol's the nose and the overcoat.
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