Freedom Letters
Dovlatov — My Dear Friend (Dovlatov Dobry Moy Priyatel)
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This is one of the most honest books about the great Russian writer Sergei Dovlatov, born in 1941 in Ufa and died in 1990 in New York. His friend and biographer, Lyudmila Stern, recounts the comic and tragic episodes of her hero's life, as well as the literary figures who became symbols of a generation: Brodsky, Rein, Nabokov, Hemingway, Efimov, Gordin... The book will be useful to anyone interested in 20th-century literature and the history of emigration.
Publisher: Freedom Letters
Author: Sergei Dovlatov
Language: Russian
ISBN: 978-1-4461-9309-9
ISBN (Barcode): 9781446193099
Meet The Author
Sergei Dovlatov
Sergei Donatovich Dovlatov was a Russian writer.
He was born on September 3, 1941, in Ufa, into the family of theater director Donat Isaakovich Mechik (1909–1995) and literary proofreader Nora Sergeyevna Dovlatova (1908–1999). From 1944, he lived in Leningrad. In 1959, he entered the Faculty of Philology at Leningrad University (Finnish language), which he had to leave after two and a half years of study. From 1962 to 1965, he served in the army, in the system of security for corrective labor camps in the north of the Komi ASSR.…
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