ABSURD AND HUMOUR IN SERGEI DOVLATOV’S WORKS

Abstract

The article “Absurd And Humour in Sergei Dovlatov’s Works” is dedicated to a famous Russian emigrant writer, a representative of the third wave of the Russian emigration whose fate was dramatic in the Soviet Union. Dovlatovappeared in literature at the end of the 60s when Russian writers tried to arise acute issues avoiding the Soviet conjuncture. Dovlatovgave priority to short prosaic forms -a story and an anecdote having mainly autobiographical and humoristic character to show the reality a man had to live in and not in the free and absurd world.