Bowie writes in the grand tradition of Russian literature. "Googlegogol" consists of thirteen short stories, based (thematically, biographically, or stylistically) on Bulgakov, Bunin, Chekhov, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Nabokov, Tolstoy. The entire production is refracted through the consciousness of that quintessential deranged master of Russian prose: Nikolai Gogol.