Pushkin Hills, by Sergei Dovlatov
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Pushkin Hills, by Sergei Dovlatov
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An unsuccessful writer and an inveterate alcoholic, Boris Alikhanov has recently divorced his wife Tatyana, and he is running out of money. The prospect of a summer job as a tour guide at the Pushkin Hills Preserve offers him hope of regaining some balance in life as his wife makes plans to emigrate to the West with their daughter Masha, but during Alikhanov’s stay in the rural estate of Mikhaylovskoye, his life continues to unravel.Populated with unforgettable characters—including Alikhanov’s fellow guides Mitrofanov and Pototsky, and the KGB officer Belyaev—Pushkin Hills ranks among Dovlatov’s renowned works The Suitcase and The Zone as his most personal and poignant portrayal of the Russian attitude towards life and art.
Pushkin Hills, by Sergei Dovlatov- Amazon Sales Rank: #413032 in Books
- Brand: Dovlatov, Sergei/ Dovlatov, Katherine (TRN)/ Wood, James (AFT)
- Published on: 2015-03-17
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.90" h x .80" w x 5.30" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 160 pages
From Booklist If comedy is tragedy plus time, Dovlatov’s deliriously acerbic Pushkin Hills invites an apothegm of its own, Russian comedy is tragedy plus alcohol. After divorcing his wife and abandoning his daughter, Boris Alikhanov—failed writer, successful drunk—leaves Leningrad in the hopes of drying out or at least escaping his shame. He flees to the Pushkin Hills Preserve, a sort of nostalgia theme park, where he ekes out a living giving tours. His wife appears, announces her intent to emigrate with their daughter, and invites Boris to accompany them. Having gotten to know Boris and his merry band of drunks, yokels, and Pushkin groupies, we know how it will end. Dovlatov himself held a job at Pushkin Hills and died in New York in 1990 at age 48. This is the sixth of his books released in English, and the translation by his daughter is a marvel, studded with puns and witty banter. If addiction might be dignified as necessity, Dovlatov, through Boris, has made of necessity a virtue. This is brief, sketchy, episodic, hilarious—in a word, delightful. --Michael Autrey
Review Praise for Pushkin Hills"Broke and divorced, Boris has taken a job as a tour-guide at the Pushkin Hills Preserve, where he immediately goes about hilariously ridiculing the visitors and staff who so revere Pushkin. Dovlatov’s short novel begins as a comedy but, rife with pathos, progresses toward a moving final act." —Publisher's Weekly, a Best Book of 2014"This is a most satisfying read that sustains its humor and emotional resonance." —Publisher's Weekly"The descent of the drunkard in Pushkin Hills, from qualified hope to utter despair, is arguably one of Dovlatov's greatest contributions to Russian literature." —New York Review of Books"The preserve in "Pushkin Hills" works as kind of a microcosm of Russian life and politics – in which one's dedication to love of country is constantly being tested. Dovlatov recognizes that this sense of surreal political paranoia does have a humorous element..." —Christian Science Monitor"Narrated in the first person, Alikhanov’s hilarious observations of the community and people around him (“He was too lazy to put on a hat. He simply laid it on top of his head”), his alcoholic misadventures, and especially his ridicule of the Pushkin Hills Preserve tourists propel this comic but trenchant story…A most satisfying read that sustains its humor and emotional resonance."—Publishers Weekly"A black comedy of eyes-wide-open excess [...] and a fine rumination on being Russian, besides." —Kirkus Reviews"This is a most satisfying read that sustains its humor and emotional resonance." —Publisher's Weekly
About the Author Sergei Dovlatov was born in Ufa, Bashkiria (U.S.S.R.), in 1941. He dropped out of the University of Leningrad after two years and was drafted into the army, serving as a guard in high-security prison camps. In 1965 he began to work as a journalist, first in Leningrad and then in Tallinn, Estonia. After a period of intense harassment by the authorities, he emigrated to the United States in 1978. He lived in New York until his death in 1990.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful. One of the best books written by Dovlatov By Wadiczka First of all, I want to say that I was looking forward to buy a softcover, but then I changed my mind. This book has a cool dust cover and nice afterword, which softcover does not have.As any of Dovlatov's books this one is very personal, filled with witty humor and descriptions of absurd situations the authors gets in. For those who think that everything what is in the book is true - please do not assume that. It's is a fictional book, which is autobiographical to some extent. So please, I understand, that people can have their own opinions, but I think that the Russian writer, who were able to publish 10 of his stories in New Yorker (and this is the second time after Nabokov) deserves to get his own readers! Those that he couldn't get in USSR. And this is what the book is about - about a writer who tries to make his ends meet and create some order in his ow personal life.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. translator's accomplishment By Alla Roylance If you were able to read this book in original Russian, you would appreciate the seemingly unsurmountable task of translating it. Filled with the references to Soviet realia (which could be difficult to comprehend for an outsider), intricate word play, folkloric sprinklings - not to mention artful, downright virtuoso profanities bordering on philosophical discoveries - the narrative flows with surprising ease in English. It is an engaging, hilarious and heartbreaking book. A masterpiece by Sergei Dovlatov and an excellent, brave translator's accomplishment by Katherine Dovlatov.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Lost in translation? By keetmom Sergei Dovlatov had a wonderful, wry way of writing capturing the insanities of Soviet life at all levels. I just loved "The Suitcase" his collection of semi-autobiographical short stories, and so sought out "Pushkin Hills" on the basis also of some excellent media reviews. Armed with reasonable background knowledge of the life of Pushkin, I felt I was prepared for a book satirising life at a literary tourist resort. I think I probably caught about half the in-house jibes and many of the personal ambiguities that dog the narrator, but I can't say I found it the knock about, laugh a minute caper that others seem to have enjoyed. Nonetheless I felt it a worthwhile and moving, albeit sometimes confusing read.
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