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More info This five-volume edition is unique. To date, this is the most complete collection of works by Sergei Dovlatov. And besides, it included detailed comments by the professor of St. Petersburg State University I.N. Dry. The texts are printed taking into account the last copyright revision. Today Sergei Dovlatov is one of the most popular and widely read Russian writers of the late twentieth century, and he is “doomed” to remain so for a long time to come. His works are the very great classics that, for all their importance, remain interesting and close to readers, regardless of age, nationality, erudition or, in the words of Dovlatov himself, «the degree of intellectual captiousness.» Lev Losev formulated this quality of Dovlatov’s prose as follows: «Dovlatov knew the secret of how to write in an interesting way.» The first volume contains the famous novel «The Zone» and the stories and stories of the 1960s – 1970s. The second volume contains the most important works of Dovlatov of the early 1980s — «Compromise», «Zapovednik», «Nashi». The third volume includes the books «March of the Lonely» and «Craft». In 1980-1982, Dovlatov led a column in the weekly newspaper «New American», being its editor-in-chief. Some of the materials published in the newspaper, Dovlatov subsequently combined into the collection «March of the Lonely». The writer himself considered newspaper work no less important than artistic creation. For the first time in this volume, articles, essays, feuilletons, interviews related to the two-year work of S. Dovlatov in The New American are presented in full. The fourth volume includes such famous works of S. Dovlatov as «Inostranka», «Suitcase», «Branch», as well as stories of the 1980s. The fifth volume includes the famous «Notebooks» of Dovlatov and his philological prose. The appendix contains fragments that were not included in the final text of the Notebooks, as well as from the book Not Only Brodsky. …
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