Solo on Underwood and other stories. Philological prose: Sergey Dovlatov

Today, Sergei Dovlatov is one of the most popular and readable Russian writers of the late twentieth century. His works are the same great classic, which, on all its scale, remains simple, entertaining and accessible to any reader, regardless of age, nationality, “well -read” or, in the words of Dovlatov himself, “degree of intellectual pickiness”. Lev Losev formulated this in the simplest phrase: “Dovlatov knew the secret of how interesting to write.”
Dovlatov’s notebooks are an exemplary combination of a laconic phrase and wonderful humor. This is a collection of ridiculous and sad phrases, situations, images, at different times of what they have seen, heard, noted by the writer. In combination with a variety of articles and notes on literary topics, erected under the heading “Philological prose”, they are, as it were, the opposite side of the writer’s work. Reading this book, you enter the workshop of Dovlatov, and this, perhaps, is more valuable to other, most famous works.

Author
Dovlatov Sergey Donatovich
Publisher
ABC, 2014
Series
Eternal books