The Compromise
1981
First Published
4.38
Average Rating
220
Number of Pages
Based on Dovlatov's experiences as a journalist in the Soviet Republic of Estonia, this is an acidly comic picture of ludicrous bureaucratic ineptitude, which obviously still continues.
Avg Rating
4.38
Number of Ratings
5,171
5 STARS
55%
4 STARS
31%
3 STARS
11%
2 STARS
2%
1 STARS
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Author
Sergei Dovlatov
Author · 27 books
SERGEI DOVLATOV (Russian: Сергей Довлатов) 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.
