In his plan for the novel "The Life of a Great Sinner", Dostoyevsky notes that the concision of this work will at times mirror that of "Gil Blas". Gil Blas is also mentioned in Chapter III of Dostoyevsky's "A Gentle Creature", in which the narrator asks, "Why, didn't she tell me that amusing story about Gil Blas and the Archbishop of Granada herself the day before yesterday? We were discussing books. She was telling me about the books she had been reading that winter, and it was then that she told me about the scene from "Gil Blas"."