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In the shadow of Gogol.(The Namesake)(Book Review)
From: The New Leader
Date: 20030901
Author:Austen, Benjamin
The Namesake By Jhumpa Lahiri Houghton Mifflin. 291 pp. $24.00.
"WE ALL CAME out from under Gogol's 'Overcoat.'" That tip of the shapka to a fellow writer's brief masterpiece has been variously attributed to Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy and Ivan Turgenev. Jhumpa Lahiri--winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for fiction with her first collection of stories, Interpreter of Maladies--goes the Russian greats one better by offering a full-length homage to Nikolai Gogol in her debut novel.
In "The Overcoat," when the beleaguered copying clerk Akaky Akakievich seeks out a tailor ...
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