How is the "nose -stylistic and critical comment

In this book, the story "Nose" appears from an unexpected side. Ksana Blank analyzes numerous examples of Gogol’s linguistic game, primarily deformation of idioms and updating their literal meanings, and draws a parallel between the "destruction of the integrity of the human body" and a violation of the integrity of phraseological meanings.
This allows the author to consider a language game as an engine of the plot of a story, and the Russian language as its hero.
The book also presents an overview of the interpretations of the story from the moment of its release to the present day and its connection with the era of modernism is shown - the work of Shostakovich, Harms, Kafka and Dali.
The book is intended not only for philologists, but also for all those interested in the work of N.V. Gogol and classical Russian literature in general