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In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.

This writer created a puff pastry-eating man who encourages Piskaryov to pursue a beautiful woman he sees on Nevsky Prospekt. In a story by this writer, a barber, offended by the protagonist's characterization of his hands as smelly, tries to throw a body part surreptitiously into the River Neva as an act of revenge. In another story by this writer, the words "I am your brother" make a young official regret making fun of the protagonist, who later confronts the "important person". Petrovich creates the title garment for that character, Akaky Akakievitch. For 10 points, name this Russian short-story writer, author of "The Nose" and "The Overcoat."
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Literature