Gogol, the great Russian writer is well-known for presenting extraordinary events (like finding one day that your nose has gone lost and is out and about in town) in the guise of everyday occurrences or facts, and he does this by using a direct and straightforward tone that, on the one hand, alienates his characters from reality but at the same time, it can cause a comical effect upon the reader, but this latter one is more of an interpretative outcome on the side of the reader than on the side of Gogol´s extraordinary and direct narrative.
