Dovlatov and the surroundings

“Dovlatov and the surroundings” of Alexander Genis is a unique book about a writer who has become the voice of a generation. A special publication to the 80th anniversary of the prose writer is supplemented by the new essay of the author and the afterword of the literary critic Mark Lipovetsky.
“Genis wrote not a literary biography, not an analysis of poetics, not a philosophical commentary and not memories-but both, and another, and third, naming The resulting “philological novel”. ”
Mark Lipovetsky
“ Today nothing has changed. Dovlatov is still loved by everyone-from a plumber to an academician, from left to right, from unpretentious fans to sophisticated scribes. From the obese years of perestroika, with which Sergey returned to the literature of the metropolis, there are not so many names left. The idols of publicity, for the sake of the books of which were dreamed of reducing domestic forests and groves, remained in old subscriptions of thick magazines. But the thin pre -Uvlat books are not standing a monument to the era, but on a shelf for live reading. ”
Alexander Genis