Compromise is a collection of novellas by Sergei Dovlatov. The book includes 12 novellas (“compromises”) in total. They were written between 1973 and 1980 and gathered into a single book in 1981.
The plots for the novellas in Compromise were taken from Sergei Dovlatov’s journalistic experience at the Russian-language Estonian newspaper Soviet Estonia in 1972–1975. Each novella is preceded by a newspaper preamble. In this preamble, the result of the hero’s journalistic work is shown, while the novellas themselves depict the working process.