Reserve

"Reserve" is a novella based on Dovlatov's personal experience, appearing as a series of anecdotal stories. However, at the center of its plot is the tormenting personal crisis of the "superfluous man." The main character, the unrecognized writer Boris Alihanov,... takes a summer job at the A. S. Pushkin Museum-Reserve "Mikhailovskoe" in the Pskov region, but instead of the inspiring world of Russian classics, he discovers a pitiful semblance of theatrical scenery, where there is not a single authentic object. Here, even the museum staff, while speaking about Pushkin, use clichéd phrases like "the great poet and citizen," instead of engaging narratives about his work. Sensing the artificiality surrounding him, Alihanov, with his characteristic self-irony, ponders his own purpose and sarcastically reviews the state of Soviet literature and reality in general...

Author: Сергей Довлатов

Printhouse: AST

Series: Exclusive: Russian Classics

Age restrictions: 18+

Year of publication: 2025

ISBN: 9785171721626

Number of pages: 160

Size: 180x115x13 mm

Cover type: мягкая

Weight: 113 g

ID: 1702808

"Reserve" is a novella based on Dovlatov's personal experience, appearing as a series of anecdotal stories. However, at the center of its plot is the tormenting personal crisis of the "superfluous man." The main character, the unrecognized writer Boris Alihanov, takes a summer job at the A. S. Pushkin Museum-Reserve "Mikhailovskoe" in the Pskov region, but instead of the inspiring world of Russian classics, he discovers a pitiful semblance of theatrical scenery, where there is not a single authentic object. Here, even the museum staff, while speaking about Pushkin, use clichéd phrases like "the great poet and citizen," instead of engaging narratives about his work. Sensing the artificiality surrounding him, Alihanov, with his characteristic self-irony, ponders his own purpose and sarcastically reviews the state of Soviet literature and reality in general...

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