Sergei Dovlatov

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Sergei Dovlatov


Born
in Ufa, Russian Federation
September 03, 1941

Died
August 24, 1990

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Sergei Dovlatov (Russian: Сергей Довлатов) was born in Ufa, Bashkiria (U.S.S.R.), in 1941. He dropped out of the University of Leningrad after two years and was drafted into the army, serving as a guard in high-security prison camps. In 1965 he began to work as a journalist, first in Leningrad and then in Tallinn, Estonia. After a period of intense harassment by the authorities, he emigrated to the United States in 1978. He lived in New York until his death in 1990. ...more

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“В разговоре с женщиной есть один болезненный момент. Ты приводишь
факты, доводы, аргументы. Ты взываешь к логике и здравому смыслу. И
неожиданно обнаруживаешь, что ей противен сам звук твоего голоса...”
Dovlatov S.

“There's a reason every book, even one that isn't very serious, is shaped like a suitcase”
Sergei Dovlatov, The Suitcase

“Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity.”
Sergei Dovlatov, The Suitcase

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