The Foreign Woman
3 hrs. 6 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Sergey Dovlatov
Author
Sergey Dovlatov
Narrator
Kirill Grebenshchikov
Narrator
Kirill Grebenshchikov
Description
"The Foreign Woman" became the first serious work that Sergei Dovlatov wrote while in emigration.
The novella is included in school and university curricula, has been staged many times in theaters as a play, translated into all the main European languages, and still remains beloved by readers.
The author dedicates this book to “lonely Russian women in America,” and tells the story of one of them. The life of the main heroine is filled with big and small troubles, funny and tragic events—out of which the author assembles the portrait of “The Foreign Woman.” And each of these elements is presented by Dovlatov on the one hand very simply, and on the other with such irony that even the moments when the characters of the novella are weeping without comfort make you laugh.
Marusya Tatarovich is a girl from a good Soviet family. Her parents were not careerists: historical circumstances of the Soviet system that destroyed the best people forced her father and mother to occupy vacant positions, and by the end of their working biographies they firmly established themselves in the mid-level nomenclature. Marusya had everything for happiness: a piano, a color TV, and a duty policeman by their house. After finishing school, she easily got into the Institute of Culture, and was surrounded by admirers appropriate to her rank. The price for family happiness struck the Tatarovichs in the face of a Jew with a hopelessly strange surname—Tsekhnovitser…
The novella is included in school and university curricula, has been staged many times in theaters as a play, translated into all the main European languages, and still remains beloved by readers.
The author dedicates this book to “lonely Russian women in America,” and tells the story of one of them. The life of the main heroine is filled with big and small troubles, funny and tragic events—out of which the author assembles the portrait of “The Foreign Woman.” And each of these elements is presented by Dovlatov on the one hand very simply, and on the other with such irony that even the moments when the characters of the novella are weeping without comfort make you laugh.
Marusya Tatarovich is a girl from a good Soviet family. Her parents were not careerists: historical circumstances of the Soviet system that destroyed the best people forced her father and mother to occupy vacant positions, and by the end of their working biographies they firmly established themselves in the mid-level nomenclature. Marusya had everything for happiness: a piano, a color TV, and a duty policeman by their house. After finishing school, she easily got into the Institute of Culture, and was surrounded by admirers appropriate to her rank. The price for family happiness struck the Tatarovichs in the face of a Jew with a hopelessly strange surname—Tsekhnovitser…
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