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Sergei Dovlatov (1941–1990)

Autor(a) de The Suitcase

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About the Author

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 His fiction was unpublished in the Soviet Union, but he was active in unofficial literary life and was forced to leave in 1978 for publishing satirical fiction in Samizdat.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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos

Obras de Sergei Dovlatov

The Suitcase (1986) 306 cópias
The Compromise (1983) 165 cópias
Pushkin Hills (1983) 148 cópias
Ours (1983) 85 cópias
A Foreign Woman (1987) 85 cópias
La filiale (2006) 29 cópias
Il libro invisibile (1979) 28 cópias
Oficio (2000) 13 cópias
La marcia dei solitari (2006) 11 cópias
Domein (2020) 11 cópias
El recull (1900) 6 cópias
Ремесло (1985) 6 cópias
De vreemdelinge (2022) 5 cópias
L'ofici (Resmeló). (2018) 5 cópias
Kompromissi (2021) 5 cópias
Kovčeg (2013) 4 cópias
Retiro (2017) 4 cópias
Т. 3 (2003) 4 cópias
Puskin Tepeleri (2016) 4 cópias
Taccuini (2016) 3 cópias
[Т.] 1 (1995) 3 cópias
Т. 1 (2003) 3 cópias
Bavul (2022) 3 cópias
Т. 2 (2002) 3 cópias
Maloizvestnyi Dovlatov (1995) 3 cópias
Puskinova brda (2018) 2 cópias
La Filiale (2019) 2 cópias
Le domaine Pouchkine (2022) 2 cópias
[Т.] 3 (1995) 2 cópias
[Т.] 2 (1995) 2 cópias
Ischu cheloveka (2016) 2 cópias
Zapovednik i drugie istorii (2018) 2 cópias
Tsoon ; Kohver (2014) 2 cópias
Rasskazy iz chemodana. (2014) 1 exemplar(es)
Leivatöö ; Võõramaa naine (2019) 1 exemplar(es)
Sergei Dovlatov. Izbrannoe. (2007) 1 exemplar(es)
Maloe sobranie sochinenii (2014) 1 exemplar(es)
Remeslo 1 exemplar(es)
Predstavlenie Rasskazy (2013) 1 exemplar(es)
Straniera 1 exemplar(es)
Mars usamljenih (2022) 1 exemplar(es)
Zona (2022) 1 exemplar(es)
Рассказы 1 exemplar(es)
Zona. Zapiski nadziratelya (2016) 1 exemplar(es)
Brodksy et les Autres (2003) 1 exemplar(es)
Le Colonel dit que je t'aime (2002) 1 exemplar(es)
Devushka iz Khoroshey Semi (2006) 1 exemplar(es)
Dve Povesti (1991) 1 exemplar(es)
" Rasskazy". 1 exemplar(es)
A mala 1 exemplar(es)
LA FILIAL: 27 (NARRATIVA) (2023) 1 exemplar(es)
La Valise (2021) 1 exemplar(es)
Regime speciale 1 exemplar(es)
De vreemdelinge (1986) 1 exemplar(es)
Predstavlenie (2007) 1 exemplar(es)
Наши (2000) 1 exemplar(es)
[Т.] 1 1 exemplar(es)
Избранное (2005) 1 exemplar(es)
Beležnice 1 exemplar(es)
Uloga - price iz Rusije (2021) 1 exemplar(es)
Zona : beleske nadzornika (2021) 1 exemplar(es)
Solo na IBM-u (2020) 1 exemplar(es)
Zanat (2020) 1 exemplar(es)
Ariel - price iz Amerike (2021) 1 exemplar(es)
Staryi petukh, zapechennyi v gline (1998) 1 exemplar(es)
Spomen muzej (2013) 1 exemplar(es)
Zhizn Korotka (Russian Edition) (2018) 1 exemplar(es)
La maleta 1 exemplar(es)

Associated Works

Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida (2005) — Contribuinte — 223 cópias
Sudden Fiction International: Sixty Short-Short Stories (1989) — Contribuinte — 213 cópias
Wisdom and Wit (Chtenia: Readings from Russia, 16) (2011) — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome padrão
Dovlatov, Sergei
Nome de batismo
Довлатов-Мечник, Сергей Донатович
Dovlatov-Mechnik, Sergei Donatovich
Data de nascimento
1941-09-03
Data de falecimento
1990-08-24
Local de enterro
Mount Hebron Cemetery, New York, New York, USA
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USSR
Armenia
USA
País (para mapa)
Russia
Local de nascimento
Ufa, Republic of Bashkiria, USSR
Local de falecimento
New York, New York, USA
Locais de residência
Leningrad, Russia, USSR
Tallinn, Estonia, USSR
New York, New York, USA
Chiniavoryk, Komi Republic, USSR
Pushkin Hills, Russia, USSR
Educação
Leningrad State University (Nongrad|Finnish)
Leningrad State University (Diplom|Journalism)
Ocupação
journalist
security guard
editor
writer
researcher
museum tour guide
Organizações
Writer's Union of the USSR
The New Yorker
Pequena biografia
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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Instead of the usual disclaimer, Dovlatov wrote:

"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.
… (mais)
 
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pamelad | outras 2 resenhas | Jul 24, 2023 |
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.… (mais)
 
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Natt90 | outras 15 resenhas | Feb 6, 2023 |
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.… (mais)
 
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bibliotecayamaguchi | outras 15 resenhas | Nov 11, 2022 |
Most entertaining book I've read in a long while.
 
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mkfs | outras 15 resenhas | Aug 13, 2022 |

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