THE NOSE
Short description:
An absurd satirical short story by the famous Russian dramatist, superbly illustrated by the Saint Petersburg graphic artist Boris Zabirokhin.
Artists:
Edition:
30 copies numbered and signed by the publisher and the artist. Copy № 1 is in the collection of the State Hermitage.
Additional information
Details of the creation of this masterpiece
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Year of publication:2019
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Number of pages:70
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Dimensions:440 × 310 mm
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Paper:Somerset (England), 250 g/m², handmade
Language:
Russian
The Nose is an absurd satirical short story written by the famous Russian prose-writer, dramatist and commentator Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol.
Gogol has been called a mystic, a monk, a prophet of life, a prodigy. This unsurpassed master of the word left the world dozens of immortal works. In his oeuvre, fantasy is interwoven with reality, the beautiful with the repellent, tragedy with comedy. Interest in the life and work of a writer who is one of the most enigmatic figures in Russian 19th-century literature has already endured for well over a century and a half. Scholars continue to analyse Gogol’s biography and writings, attempting to discover the secrets of the life and death of a great genius…
Gogol has been called a mystic, a monk, a prophet of life, a prodigy. This unsurpassed master of the word left the world dozens of immortal works. In his oeuvre, fantasy is interwoven with reality, the beautiful with the repellent, tragedy with comedy. Interest in the life and work of a writer who is one of the most enigmatic figures in Russian 19th-century literature has already endured for well over a century and a half. Scholars continue to analyse Gogol’s biography and writings, attempting to discover the secrets of the life and death of a great genius…
Work on a bibliophilic edition of The Nose began in October 2016. The first copy of the book was completed in April 2019.
Participants in the work on this publication:
Creator of the lithographs and the relief in the shape of a nose — Boris Zabirokhin
Printing of the lithographs — Alexei Baranov
Book design and layout of the text — David Plaksin
Design of the cover and case — Piotr Suspitsyn
Hand typesetting and printing of the text — Sergei Yashin
Hand typesetting and printing of the colophon — Ruslan Knyazev
Bronze casting and patination — Nikita Fyodorov
Marbling of the paper for the endpapers — Yekaterina Savelyeva
Binding work — Andrei Degtev, Andrei Kulikov
Proof-reader — Natalia Nesterova
Creator of the lithographs and the relief in the shape of a nose — Boris Zabirokhin
Printing of the lithographs — Alexei Baranov
Book design and layout of the text — David Plaksin
Design of the cover and case — Piotr Suspitsyn
Hand typesetting and printing of the text — Sergei Yashin
Hand typesetting and printing of the colophon — Ruslan Knyazev
Bronze casting and patination — Nikita Fyodorov
Marbling of the paper for the endpapers — Yekaterina Savelyeva
Binding work — Andrei Degtev, Andrei Kulikov
Proof-reader — Natalia Nesterova
The text of the book was typeset by hand in the Corinna typeface and printed on a 19th-century Dingler hand press.
The book contains four vignettes and 13 lithographic illustrations. The choice of an artist to illustrate The Nose was no easy matter.
To work on Gogol’s short story, the publishing house invited well-known Saint Petersburg graphic artist Boris Zabirokhin, a man whom art critics term a sorcerer, a magician and mystificator because in his work he engages closely with the world of dreams, fantasies and the void.
To work on Gogol’s short story, the publishing house invited well-known Saint Petersburg graphic artist Boris Zabirokhin, a man whom art critics term a sorcerer, a magician and mystificator because in his work he engages closely with the world of dreams, fantasies and the void.
An original design approach was devised for the cover and case of the book. The case, which is covered with dark grey shimmering silk, has an oval window with patinated glass in its lid.
The window is coated with amalgam like an antique mirror in which you can inspect your reflection and check that all the protruding parts of your face are still in place. If you look carefully, though, you can make out the shape of a nose through the glass. On the front of the book’s cover, which is made from English Kenya kid leather, a frame lined with bottle-green baize (the colour of the uniform for middle-ranking civil officials and the cloth used on the desks of government offices in Gogol’s day) surrounds the very nose of Major Kovalev, the chief protagonist of the story, cast in bronze.
The endpapers are made from hand-marbled paper.
The window is coated with amalgam like an antique mirror in which you can inspect your reflection and check that all the protruding parts of your face are still in place. If you look carefully, though, you can make out the shape of a nose through the glass. On the front of the book’s cover, which is made from English Kenya kid leather, a frame lined with bottle-green baize (the colour of the uniform for middle-ranking civil officials and the cloth used on the desks of government offices in Gogol’s day) surrounds the very nose of Major Kovalev, the chief protagonist of the story, cast in bronze.
The endpapers are made from hand-marbled paper.
Additional information
Details of the creation of this masterpiece
About this edition
About this edition:
-
Year of publication:2019
-
Number of pages:70
-
Dimensions:440 × 310 mm
-
Paper:Somerset (England), 250 g/m², handmade
Language:
Russian
The Nose is an absurd satirical short story written by the famous Russian prose-writer, dramatist and commentator Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol.
Gogol has been called a mystic, a monk, a prophet of life, a prodigy. This unsurpassed master of the word left the world dozens of immortal works. In his oeuvre, fantasy is interwoven with reality, the beautiful with the repellent, tragedy with comedy. Interest in the life and work of a writer who is one of the most enigmatic figures in Russian 19th-century literature has already endured for well over a century and a half. Scholars continue to analyse Gogol’s biography and writings, attempting to discover the secrets of the life and death of a great genius…
Gogol has been called a mystic, a monk, a prophet of life, a prodigy. This unsurpassed master of the word left the world dozens of immortal works. In his oeuvre, fantasy is interwoven with reality, the beautiful with the repellent, tragedy with comedy. Interest in the life and work of a writer who is one of the most enigmatic figures in Russian 19th-century literature has already endured for well over a century and a half. Scholars continue to analyse Gogol’s biography and writings, attempting to discover the secrets of the life and death of a great genius…
Work on a bibliophilic edition of The Nose began in October 2016. The first copy of the book was completed in April 2019.
Participants in the work on this publication:
Creator of the lithographs and the relief in the shape of a nose — Boris Zabirokhin
Printing of the lithographs — Alexei Baranov
Book design and layout of the text — David Plaksin
Design of the cover and case — Piotr Suspitsyn
Hand typesetting and printing of the text — Sergei Yashin
Hand typesetting and printing of the colophon — Ruslan Knyazev
Bronze casting and patination — Nikita Fyodorov
Marbling of the paper for the endpapers — Yekaterina Savelyeva
Binding work — Andrei Degtev, Andrei Kulikov
Proof-reader — Natalia Nesterova
Creator of the lithographs and the relief in the shape of a nose — Boris Zabirokhin
Printing of the lithographs — Alexei Baranov
Book design and layout of the text — David Plaksin
Design of the cover and case — Piotr Suspitsyn
Hand typesetting and printing of the text — Sergei Yashin
Hand typesetting and printing of the colophon — Ruslan Knyazev
Bronze casting and patination — Nikita Fyodorov
Marbling of the paper for the endpapers — Yekaterina Savelyeva
Binding work — Andrei Degtev, Andrei Kulikov
Proof-reader — Natalia Nesterova
Text
The text of the book was typeset by hand in the Corinna typeface and printed on a 19th-century Dingler hand press.
Illustrations
The book contains four vignettes and 13 lithographic illustrations. The choice of an artist to illustrate The Nose was no easy matter.
To work on Gogol’s short story, the publishing house invited well-known Saint Petersburg graphic artist Boris Zabirokhin, a man whom art critics term a sorcerer, a magician and mystificator because in his work he engages closely with the world of dreams, fantasies and the void.
To work on Gogol’s short story, the publishing house invited well-known Saint Petersburg graphic artist Boris Zabirokhin, a man whom art critics term a sorcerer, a magician and mystificator because in his work he engages closely with the world of dreams, fantasies and the void.
Binding
An original design approach was devised for the cover and case of the book. The case, which is covered with dark grey shimmering silk, has an oval window with patinated glass in its lid.
The window is coated with amalgam like an antique mirror in which you can inspect your reflection and check that all the protruding parts of your face are still in place. If you look carefully, though, you can make out the shape of a nose through the glass. On the front of the book’s cover, which is made from English Kenya kid leather, a frame lined with bottle-green baize (the colour of the uniform for middle-ranking civil officials and the cloth used on the desks of government offices in Gogol’s day) surrounds the very nose of Major Kovalev, the chief protagonist of the story, cast in bronze.
The endpapers are made from hand-marbled paper.
The window is coated with amalgam like an antique mirror in which you can inspect your reflection and check that all the protruding parts of your face are still in place. If you look carefully, though, you can make out the shape of a nose through the glass. On the front of the book’s cover, which is made from English Kenya kid leather, a frame lined with bottle-green baize (the colour of the uniform for middle-ranking civil officials and the cloth used on the desks of government offices in Gogol’s day) surrounds the very nose of Major Kovalev, the chief protagonist of the story, cast in bronze.
The endpapers are made from hand-marbled paper.
Nikolai Gogol
THE NOSE
An absurd satirical short story by the famous Russian dramatist
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