The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist by Orhan Pamuk: “was formulated, via analytical logic, by the German dramatist and critic Gotthold Ephraim Lessing in his book Laocoön (1766)”
Kusamakura by Natsume Sōseki: “The argument does not matter. I have mostly forgotten Laocoön, and if I looked into it I might find myself wrong. At any rate, since I had failed to make a picture, I would try making it a poem. [auto-translated]”