We continue the unique series of audiobooks based on the works of Sergei Dovlatov!
Arriving in Los Angeles for the émigré symposium «New Russia», the hero meets a friend of his youth. As a result, the past, present and future are tied into a single, inseparable knot …
• We have freedom and youth. And freedom plus youth seems to be called love.
• Remember … it is a great honor for a man to be called a rude animal.
• Women do not like those who ask. They humiliate those who ask. Therefore, don’t ask. And if possible yourself — don’t ask. Take what you can yourself. If not, then pretend to be indifferent.
• I was like a gardener who pulls a flower out of the ground every day to see if it has taken root.
• It is not money that attracts women. Not cars and jewelry. Not restaurants and expensive clothes. Not power, wealth and elegance. And what made a person powerful, rich and elegant. The power that some are endowed with and others are completely devoid of.
• “In the evening we were shown the sights. I myself am indifferent to all this. Especially to museums. I have always been oppressed by the unnatural accumulation of rarities. It is foolish to keep more than one Rembrandt painting in a room … «
• I am fighting totalitarianism, and you remind me of debts ?!
• After the communists, I hate the anti-communists the most!
© Sergey Dovlatov (heirs)
The recording was made by the production center «Vimbo»
© & ℗ Production Center «Vimbo», 2016
Producers: Vadim Bukh, Mikhail Litvakov
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