Сергей Довлатов

"This five-volume edition is unique. Today it is the most complete collected works of Sergei Dovlatov. And besides, it included detailed comments by Professor of St. Petersburg State University I.N. Sukhikh. The texts are printed taking into account the latest copyright revision. Today Sergey Dovlatov is one of the most popular and readable Russian writers of the late twentieth century. He is doomed to remain so for a long time. His works are that great classic, which, with all its significance, remains interesting and close to readers, regardless of age, nationality, erudition, or, in the words of Dovlatov himself, the degree of intellectual pickiness. Lev Losev formulated this quality of Dovlatov's prose as follows: Dovlatov knew the secret of how to write interestingly. The first volume prints the famous novel The Zone and the stories and novels of the 1960-1970s. The second volume prints the most important works of Dovlatov of the early 1980s years - Compromise, Reserve, Ours." --