'Solo on an Underwood. Solo on an IBM'—the notebooks of Sergei Dovlatov—witty, aphoristic, and merciless notes on the literary life of Leningrad and émigré New York. Anecdotes, observations, and dialogues—the quintessence of Dovlatov's style, where every joke conceals a precise observation about human nature.
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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.…
