Emerging from Gogol's Overcoat

[Stephen Baehr]

In response to Russel Valentino's question about the source of
Dostoevsky's supposed statement that "we have all emerged from under
Gogol's Overcoat": Simon Karlinsky in +The Sexual Labyrinth of
Nikolai Gogol+ (p. 135) argues that the statement is apocryphal
and can be traced to the French critic of the Russian novel
Melchior de Vogue.
        Steve Baehr