About the book: 2024 / This is one of the most honest books about the great Russian writer Sergei Dovlatov, born in 1941 in Ufa and died in 1990 in New York. His friend and biographer Lyudmila Stern talks about the comic and tragic episodes of the life of her hero, about the writers who became symbols of the generation: Brodsky, Reine, Nabokov, Hemingway, Efimov, Gordin... The book will be useful to everyone interested in twentieth-century literature and the history of emigration.