The book includes works by Sergey Dovlatov unknown to the general reader—an uncylcled novel “March of the Lonely,” short stories, his letters to friends, and recollections about him by his acquaintances.
Contents:
March of the Lonely Novel
The Donkey Must Be Thin Short story
Another Life Novella
Soldiers on Nevsky Prospect Short story
The Role Short story
Road to a New Apartment Short story
The Third Turn Left Short story
On the Street and at Home Short story
We and the Gynecologist Budanitsky Short story
Old Rooster Baked in Clay Short story
We Began in the Era of Stagnation Criticism
Literature Continues Criticism
Translated Pictures Criticism
The Redhead Criticism
The Voyeur Criticism
Riding on a Snail Criticism
The Last Oddball Criticism
A Difficult Word Criticism
That Untranslatable Word — “Rudeness” Criticism
Letters on My Desk Short story
Letters to Lyudmila Stern Letter
Letter to Yulia Gubareva Letter
Letters to Naum Sagalovsky Letter
Letters to Andrey Aryev Letter
Creativity Before Creativity (Igor Smirnov) Article
Poetry and an Anecdote (Viktor Krivulin) Article
This Neapolitan Exterior (Lyudmila Stern) Article
A Few Words in Passing (Evgeny Rein) Article
Characters in Search of an Author (Anatoly Naiman) Article
About Dovlatov (Sergey Wolf) Article
Tell Them All There (Boris Rokhlin) Article
Sergey Dovlatov — a Petersburg man (Igor Smirnov-Okhtin) Article
Sergey (Viktor Sosnora) Article
We Said Goodbye, Laughing (Vladimir Ufljand) Article
Blood — the Only Ink (Valery Popov) Article
Uniqueness at Any Cost (Igor Efimov) Article
Without Dovlatov (Petr Vail) Article
At the Level of Simplicity (Aleksandr Genis) Article
Cross Rhyme (Skulskaya Elena) Article
Inscriptions and Photographs (Nina Aloviert) Article
Bibliographic Note (Aryev A.Yu.)