The Compromise (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Sergei Dovlatov
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: November, 1973, to October, 1976
- Setting: Tallinn, the capital of the Estonian Socialist Republic
- Genres: Long fiction, Realism, Satire
- Subjects: 1970’s, Journalism or journalists, Communism or communists, Sex or sexuality, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Substance abuse, Anti-Semitism, Soviet Union or Soviets
- Locales: Tallinn, Estonia
Characters Discussed
Sergei Dovlatov (sehr-GAY doh- VLAH-tov), a journalist in his mid-thirties, formerly a camp guard. Educated as a philologist, he is talented, very tall, and an alcoholic. Something of a dissident (he is part Jewish), he works for an Estonian newspaper. He is separated from his wife and behind in his alimony payments. In telling the reader the truth behind several apparently innocuous “compromising” human interest stories he had written for his newspaper, the narrator presents himself as the center of a kind of novel that ends with the reporter’s...
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