About the book: 2012 / In the collection “The brilliance and poverty of Russian literature” the philological prose of Sergei Dovlatov is presented quite fully for the first time. He wrote about Pushkin and Tolstoy, V. Uflyand and A. Sinyavsky, Kafka and Hemingway (as “Russians” and personal authors). Dovlatov’s reviews, magazine hacks, turn either into literary portraits, or into essays on literary morals and merge with the same “literature about literature”, like “The Invisible Book” or “Solo on Underwood”. Dovlatov’s philological prose is distinguished not by objectivity, but by personal tone, causticity, humor - the same properties that are characteristic of his “ordinary” prose. Texts by S. Dovlatov for the first time accompanied by a real commentary from the professor, Dr. n. I. N. Sukhikh. He is also the author of the introductory article to the book..