In Monday’s profile Sonya Chung identified Sergei Dovlatov as a writer whose healthy, playful, even wicked humor didn’t at all diminish the “earnestness and regret” that often underlied his work. As we see from the quotes below, it put those traits and others—Dovlatov’s clear-sightedness, political awareness and clear love of literature—in an even brighter light. Continue reading
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Sergei Dovlatov: Gravity, Levity, and Love
by Sonya Chung
“Anyhow, I don’t write about prison and zeks. What I wanted to write about was life and people.” Continue reading