Out from Gogol's Overcoat

[Jim Rader]

> Can anyone give me the location of Dostoevsky's comment to the effect that
> all of Russian literature came out from under Gogol's Overcoat?
> Many thanks.
> Russell.
>
> Russell Valentino
> Department of Russian
> 679 PH
> University of Iowa

I have nothing to base this on but memory, but my recollection is
that this statement was based on oral tradition and had never
been found in Dostoevsky's written corpus.

Jim Rader