Vague recollection that my Hons. diss. at Glasgow in '79 was an embarrassing (in retrospect) comparison of short stories of Gogol/Dostoevsky. (Sheesh, hope sumb'dy's burned it)

Wish I'd known about James Hogg's 'Confessions' beforehand. How differently things could have turned out . . .

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