About a premonition of the writer’s fate. The story of S.D. Dovlatov “Fate”

Abstract

Purpose of the article: To introduce the insufficiently researched materials of the collection “Little-known Dovlatov”, the memories of writers about him: Alexander Genis, Pyotr Weil, the correspondence of S. Dovlatov to his friends — letters to Lyudmila Stern. Dovlatov’s correspondence to his friends — letters to Lyudmila Stern. The author studies the typological similarities in the dominant ideas, poetics, language with the classic of the 20th century Russian literature A.P. Platonov.