Sergei Dovlatov: The Reserve

"The Reserve" (1983) is one of Sergei Dovlatov's best books, in which the theme of the "superfluous man" and the absurdity of human life unfolds against the backdrop of the "Pskov distances" of the Pushkin Reserve, where the author, among other museum staff, conducted tours and told tourists about the great poet. "I wanted to portray a literary man in the Pushkin Reserve whose problems lie in the same areas as Pushkin's: money, wife, creative work, the state. And the point is by no means the protagonist's abilities... — writes Dovlatov, — but the reserve itself, which is depicted like a mausoleum, in the indifference and blindness of those around..."

Author: Sergei Dovlatov 

Pages: 160 (offset). Hardcover

Dimensions: 182x175x123 mm