The Overcoat Summary
Nikolai Gogol

With the works of the Russian author Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) the period of Russian imitation of Western literature ended. He found inspiration in native materials and combined realistic detail with ... Read more

Critical Essay by Boris Eichenbaum "The Structure of Gogol's The Overcoat,'" translated by Beth Paul and Muriel Nesbitt in Russian Review, Vol. 22, No. 4, October, 1963, p... Read more

Critical Essay by Victor Peppard "Who Stole Whose Overcoat and Whose Text Is It?" in South Atlantic Review, Vol. 55, No. 1, January, 1990, pp. 63-80. In the following essay, Peppard ... Read more

Critical Essay by Dmitri Chizhevsky "On Gogol's The Overcoat,'" translated by Priscilla Meyer and Steven Rudy, in Dostoevsky & Gogol: Texts and Criticism, edited by... Read more

Critical Essay by John Schillinger "Gogol's 'The Overcoat' as a Travesty of Hagiography," in Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 16, No. 1, Spring, 1972, pp. 36-... Read more

Critical Essay by Simon Karlinsky The Sexual Labyrinth of Nikolai Gogol, Harvard University Press, 1976, 333 p. In this thematic study the critic argues that Gogol's story is a romantic tal... Read more

Critical Essay by Donald Fanger "Epic Intentions," in The Creation of Nikolai Gogol, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1979, pp. 145-63. In the following excerpt the cri... Read more