The Armenian, the Jew and the Russian in one square meter. A few lines from Dovlatov's thoughts

September 3 is Sergei Dovlatov's birthday. It is difficult to describe him, Dovlatov is a writer, journalist, biographer, a founder of a separate branch in literature. In his books sarcasm and cold facts are beside each other, sitting on one chair, with two feet in one boot.

Dovlatov's books published in the USA in the time were met with hostility in the Soviet Union, but afterwards became beloved in that same country: describing the life and daily chores of a soviet man in details.