The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov: “You can imagine the noise that will arise when one of them, for starters, offers the reading public The Inspector General or, if worse comes to worst, Evgeny Onegin.”
A Fool's Life by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa: “He recalled the terracotta bust he had given his friend, the one of the author of The Inspector General, whom the friend loved. He thought of Gogol, who had also died mad. [auto-translated]”