Sergei Dovlatov (1941–1990)
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Dovlatov, who studied at Leningrad University, worked for a while as a journalist in Tallinn, Estonia. His fiction was unpublished in the Soviet Union, but he was active in unofficial literary life and was forced to leave in 1978 for publishing satirical fiction in Samizdat. After settling in the visa mer United States, he co-founded a Russian-language newspaper, worked as a broadcaster for Radio Liberty in New York City, and published both in major Russian emigre publications and in the U.S. press (he wrote short stories for The New Yorker). Among his books, known for their irreverent views of Soviet reality, are the autobiographical The Compromise (1981) and Ours (1983). When Dovlatov died, his works were being reissued and favorably received in Russia. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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- Dovlatov, Sergei
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- Довлатов-Мечник, Сергей Донатович
Dovlatov-Mechnik, Sergei Donatovich - Födelsedag
- 1941-09-03
- Avled
- 1990-08-24
- Begravningsplats
- Mount Hebron Cemetery, New York, New York, USA
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USSR
Armenia
USA - Land (för karta)
- Russia
- Födelseort
- Ufa, Republic of Bashkiria, USSR
- Dödsort
- New York, New York, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Leningrad, Russia, USSR
Tallinn, Estonia, USSR
New York, New York, USA
Chiniavoryk, Komi Republic, USSR
Pushkin Hills, Russia, USSR - Utbildning
- Leningrad State University (Nongrad|Finnish)
Leningrad State University (Diplom|Journalism) - Yrken
- journalist
security guard
editor
writer
researcher
museum tour guide - Organisationer
- Writer's Union of the USSR
The New Yorker - Kort biografi
- Unable to publish freely in the Soviet Union, Sergei Dovlatov circulated his writings through "samizdat" (underground) press, and had them smuggled into Western Europe for publication in foreign journals. These activities caused his expulsion from the USSR in 1976. A few years later, he was able to emigrate with his family to the USA, where his sly, humorous stories became popular in The New Yorker magazine. He also co-edited "The New American," a liberal Russian-language émigré newspaper.
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Al igual que la mayoría de las obras de Serguéi Dovlátov, La maleta está teñida de un fuerte componente autobiográfico, algo inevitable en un autor con una intensa vida marcada por las circunstancias históricas. El protagonista de la narración se ve obligado a hacer el equipaje para emprender un largo viaje de ida sin billete de vuelta. Mientras va introduciendo en una única maleta todos los objetos que le van a acompañar -muchos menos de los que se esperaba-, el narrador va recuperando episodios de su pasado, fragmentos de una trayectoria vital que le ha llevado hasta donde está ahora, pero con la que inevitablemente debe cortar de raíz. A partir de una ingeniosa excusa narrativa, Serguéi Dovlátov va retratando con un humor corrosivo, un toque de melancolía y un lenguaje sencillo pero contundente la difícil situación que se padecía en la Unión Soviética real, tan alejada de la versión oficial que se vendía al exterior.… (mer)
El libro más celebrado de Serguéi Dovlátov se recrea en el escaso contenido de la única maleta que lo acompañó en su exilio. Cada uno de los inútiles objetos que constituyeron su patrimonio nos conduce a un lugar memorable de su biografía. Mago del estilo, Dovlátov entrega aquí lo más parecido a un canon de su escritura. Preciso, despojado e irónico, el resultado es también un índice tragicómico del tejido espiritual, social y político de la URSS. La engañosa liviandad de su prosa, su disposición para reírse de sí mismo y su extraordinaria capacidad para el retrato humano han convertido a Serguéi Dovlátov en uno de los grandes maestros de las letras rusas de la segunda mitad del siglo xx.… (mer)
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"The names, events, and dates given here are all real. I invented only those details that were not essential.
Therefore, any resemblance between the characters in this book and living people is intentional and malicious. And all the fictionalizing was unexpected and accidental."
In the sixties Dovlatov had dropped out of university and been drafted into the Soviet Internal Troops to work as a prison guard in high security camps. Unlike the camps for political prisoners that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote about, these camps are for criminals. They are so isolated and remote that the guards, as well as the criminals, are effectively serving a sentence. Distinctions between guards and prisoners break down.
The book is a series of first-person narrations by various guards, who appear in each other's stories from different perspectives. What they all have in common is a bleak and sardonic humour. Interspersed with the guard's narrations are letters written by the author to his New York publisher. The book is coming along in fits and starts as random sections are smuggled out from the USSR. The author's works have never been published there and have circulated in samizdat. Parts have been lost, and the author discusses with the publisher how he will manage the gaps. He talks about what he will include and what he will leave out, and his writing philosophy.
It took me a while to get into The Zone, but once I did I found it well worth the trouble. It's Dovlatov's world view that makes it fascinating.… (mer)