Sergei Dovlatov: A “Suitcase” of Foreign Russian-Language Publications

The article reveals the history of foreign Russian-language works by the writer-emigrant S.D. Dovlatov, by analyzing the materials from the electronic database “Books in Russian Published Abroad, 1927-1991”, developed by the Research Department of Bibliography of the Russian State Library. Publications of Dovlatov’s works generated a large response from his famous contemporaries - litterateurs, journalists, culture workers. This article analyzes those reviews, which complemented Dovlatov’s publications and are of special interest. Not only individual works by Dovlatov are comprised in the article but also his participation in collective works, almanacs. The scientific novelty of this article is in that it for the first time pays close attention to the detailed bibliographical review of foreign Russian-language publications of Dovlatov’s works. The theoretical and practical importance of main results of the research is in the selection, description of the foreign publications of Dovlatov’s works in Russian, appeal to the complementing responses. This will allow literary critics and interested readers to better navigate in the foreign Russian-language literature connected with the works of writers of the third wave of emigration.

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1. Dovlatov S.D. Nevidimaya kniga [The Invisible Book]. Ann Arbor, Ardis Publ., 1977— 1978, 92 p.

2. Dovlatov S.D. Vysokie muzhchiny: rasskaz: (Iz sbornika “Kompromiss”) [Tall Men: (From “The Compromise” Collection)], Tret’ya volna: al’manakh literatury i iskusstva [The Third Wave: the Almanac of Literature and Art]. Montgeron, Tret’ya Volna Publ., 1979, books 7—8, 282 p.

3. Dovlatov S.D. Solo na undervude: (Zapisnye knizhki) [Solo on Underwood: Notebooks]. Paris, New York, Tret’ya Volna Publ., 1980, 48 p.

4. Dovlatov S.D. Solo na undervude: (Zapisnye knizhki) [Solo on Underwood: Notebooks]. Holyoke (Mass.), New England Publishing, 1983, 54 р.

5. Dovlatov S.D. Kompromiss [The Compromise]. New York, Serebryanyi Vek Publ., 1981, 128 p.

6. Dovlatov S.D. Zona: Zapiski nadziratelya [The Zone: A Prison Camp Guard’s Story]. Ann Arbor, Ermitazh Publ., 1982, 128 p.

7. Dovlatov S.D. Pushkin Hills. Ann Arbor, Ermitazh Publ., 1983, 125 p. (in Russ.)

8. Dovlatov S.D. Nashi [Ours]. Ann Arbor, Ardis Publ., 1983, 140 p.

9. Dovlatov S.D. Marsh odinokikh [The March of the Single People]. Holyoke, New England Publ., 1983, 100 p.

10. Dovlatov S.D. Craft: A Story in Two Parts. Ann Arbor, Ardis Publ., 1985, 183 p. (in Russ.)

11. Dovlatov S.D. Chemodan [The Suitcase]. Tenafl y (New Jersey), Ermitazh Publ., 1986, 109 p.

12. Dovlatov S.D. Inostranka [A Foreign Woman]. New York, Russica Publishers, Inc., 1986, 144 p.

13. Dovlatov S.D. Predstavlenie i drugie rasskazy [The Performance and Other Stories]. New York, Russica Publishers, Inc., 1987, 97 p.

14. Volkova M.M., Dovlatov S.D. Ne tol’ko Brodski i: Russkaya kul’tura v portretakh i anekdotakh [Not only Brodsky: Russian Culture in Portraits and Jokes]. New York, Slovo-Word Publ., 1988, 111 p.

15. Sumerkin A. (ed.) Russica-81: Literaturnyi sbornik [Russica-81: the Literary Collection]. New York, Russica Publishers, Inc., 1982, 414 p.

16. Matich O., Heim M. (eds). The Third Wave: Russian Literature in Emigration. Ann Arbor, Ardis Publ., 1984, 303 p. (in Russ.)

17. Altshuller M., Dryzhakova E. (eds). Izbrannye rasskazy shestidesyatykh [Selected Stories of the Sixties]. Tenafl y (New Jersey), Ermitazh Publ., 1984, 350 p.

18. Bakhchanyan V.A., Dovlatov S.D., Sagalovskii N.I. Demarsh entuziastov [Demarche of Enthusiasts]. Paris, Sintaksis Publ., 1985, 158 p.

19. Polyak G. (ed.) Chast’ rechi: Al’manakh literatury i iskusstva [Part of Speech: the Almanac of Literature and Art]. New York, Serebryanyi Vek Publ., 1980, no. 1, 309 p.

20. Glezer A.D. (ed.) Tret’ya volna: Al’manakh literatury i iskusstva [The Third Wave: the Almanac of Literature and Art]. Montgeron, Jersey City, Tret’ya Volna Publ., 1980, book 10, 108 p.

21. Dovlatov S.D. Zapisnye knizhki [Notebooks]. New York, Slovo-Word Publ., 1990, 130 p.

22. Dovlatov S.D. Filial [Affi liate]. New York, Slovo-Word Publ., 1990, 67 p.

23. Perelman V. (ed.) Vremya i my: Al’manakh literatury i obshchestvennykh problem [Time and We: the Almanac of Literature and Social Issues]. Moscow, Iskusstvo Publ., New York, Vremya i My Publ., 1990, 351 p.

24. Krasnoshchekova E.A. (ed.) Izbrannaya proza semidesyatykh: antologiya [Selected Prose of the Seventies: the Anthology]. Tenafl y (New Jersey), Ermitazh Publ., 1990, XI, 260 p