Zhizn' i mneniya. Izbrannaya perepiska

Sergey Dovlatov utverzhdal, chto pis'ma on pishet s bol'shim udovol'stviem i vdohnoveniem, chem rasskazy. On ne shutil - ego pis'ma sostavlyayut ne menee vazhnuyu chast' ego naslediya, chem proza. Eto ostroumnye, izyaschno napisannye teksty, kotorye podkupayut svoey otkrovennost'yu. Eto fakticheski hudozhestvennaya avtobiografiya pisatelya, istoriya ego zhizni v novellah, adresovannyh blizkim lyudyam. Chitatel' poluchaet ot nih ne men'shee udovol'stvie, chem ot prozy pisatelya.V knige "Zhizn' i mneniya" sobrany pis'ma-novelly Dovlatova, adresovannye izvestnym pisatelyam Viktoru Nekrasovu i Georgiyu Vladimovu, druz'yam - Andreyu Ar'evu, Naumu Sagalovskomu, aktrise Tamare Urzhumovoy, Ere Korobovoy. Osobyy plast pisem-novell, porazhayuschiy svoey chelovechnost'yu - poslaniya zhene i docheri, pis'ma otcu.Vsya napryazhennaya, a inogda tragicheskaya zhizn' Dovlatova - sluzhba v ohrannyh voyskah, emigraciya, muchitel'naya literaturnaya sud'ba v SSSR - vstaet so stranic knigi. Sredi geroev knigi Brodskiy, Solzhenicyn, Sinyavskiy.