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Sophie Pinkham: Sergei Dovlatov, 21 May 2015
Pushkin Hills
by Sergei Dovlatov, translated by Katherine Dovlatov.
Counterpoint, 163 pp., £15.99, April 2014,978 1 61902 477 9 Show More
by Sergei Dovlatov, translated by Katherine Dovlatov.
Counterpoint, 163 pp., £15.99, April 2014,
The Zone: A Prison Camp Guard’s Story
by Sergei Dovlatov, translated by Anne Frydman.
Alma, 176 pp., £7.99, October 2013,978 1 84749 357 6 Show More
by Sergei Dovlatov, translated by Anne Frydman.
Alma, 176 pp., £7.99, October 2013,
“... In 1983, Sergei Dovlatov told an interviewer that the literary situation in the Soviet Union was worse than ever. ‘If under Stalin talented writers were at first published, subsequently vilified in the press, and finally executed or destroyed in camps,’ he said, ‘it’s now the case that no one is executed, almost no one is put in prison – and no one is published ... ”
