Сергей Довлатов. Фотографии. Очерки и воспоминания

Pro Dovlatova napisano ochenʹ mnogo, no mne, kak revnostnomu t͡seniteli͡u ego talanta i odnomu iz ego pervykh chitateleĭ, vse napisannoe videlosʹ slabym ili nedostatochnym. I͡A to i delo poryvalsi͡a rasskazatʹ o li͡ubimom mnoi͡u avtore to, chto, kak mne kazalosʹ, znai͡u i ponimai͡u tolʹko i͡a odin. Mne ne khotelosʹ pereskazyvatʹ biografii͡u Dovlatova, kotorai͡a, na moĭ vzgli͡ad, prosto gromadnyĭ perechenʹ vsego, meshavshego emu zhitʹ i pechatatʹsi͡a. Dli͡a meni͡a bylo vazhnee napisatʹ o sile vozdeĭstvii͡a ego prozy na chitateli͡a, kotorui͡u i͡a ispytal na samom sebe. Mark Serman

A lot has been written about Dovlatov, but to me, as a zealous connoisseur of his talent and one of his first readers, everything written seemed weak or insufficient. Every now and then I tried to tell about the author I loved what I thought only I knew and understood. I didn't want to retell Dovlatov's biography, which, in my opinion, is just a huge list of everything that prevented him from living and being published. It was more important for me to write about the power of the impact of his prose on the reader, which I experienced on myself. Mark Serman