Reserve. Dovlatov S.

“Reserve” (1983) is one of the best books by Sergei Dovlatov, in which the theme of an extra person and the absurdity of human life unfolds against the backdrop of “Pskov Delia” of the Pushkin reserve, where the author, among other ministers of the museum, conducted excursions and told tourists About the great poet. “I wanted to portray a literary person in the Pushkin Reserve, whose problems are in the same aspect as Pushkin’s: money, wife, creativity, state. And the matter is by no means in the abilities of the hero... - writes Dovlatov, - and in the reserve itself, which is depicted like a mausoleum, in the indifference and blindness of others... "