What is unusual about the first few pages of “The Nose” (other than the nose)?

I think that overall it is the "nose" at breakfast that is showcased here. The opening scene of "The Nose" reflects Gogol's surreal and grotesque writing style common to his works of the time. The barber's perfectly normal morning is interrupted by a fantastical twist: a nose appears in his breakfast. If that is not strange enough, the fact that the barber immediately recognizes the nose as belonging to his customer, Major Kovalev, is highly improbable.

Yet this phenomenon goes unquestioned, thus implying the existence of an alternative logic within the story. The rest of the story unfolds based on the foundation of this absurdist logic.