About a premonition of the writer’s fate. The story of S.D. Dovlatov “Fate”

UDC 82-94

https://doi.org/10.20339/PhS.3-23.083

Vera D. Serafimova,

Candidate of Philology, Professor

Department of Russian Literature & Journalism of XX–XXI centuries

Moscow State Pedagogical University

e-mail: serafimova@yandex.ru

Purpose of the article: To introduce the insufficiently researched materials of the collection “Little-known Dovlatov”, the memories of writers about him: Alexander Genis, Pyotr Weil, the correspondence of S. Dovlatov to his friends — letters to Lyudmila Stern. Dovlatov’s correspondence to his friends — letters to Lyudmila Stern. The author studies the typological similarities in the dominant ideas, poetics, language with the classic of the 20th century Russian literature A.P. Platonov.

Keywords: Ufa, evacuation, Sergey Dovlatov, Andrey Platonov, Alexander Genis, Pyotr Weil, the story “Fate”, Lyudmila Stern.

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