Le Nez De Gogol

claimed to be ‘true’. This was the case not only with the many realistically described stories of ordinary life but of the extraordinary too: tales of the supernatural, of horror and mystery inspired in large part by foreign authors (Pushkin, Poe, Gogol). Even writers who distanced themselves from the outlandish and the strange identified the form with some intense, exceptional experience: hence the large numbers of stories about war, revenge, violence, madness, sex and blood. The French fabliau tradition