Frants Gallery Space New York invites you to attend the opening reception for the exhibition “Drawings to Dovlatov” by Alexander Florensky.
Friday, April 20, 2012
6:30pm-10:00pm
Frants Gallery Space
81 Wooster St. 4WM, New York, NY
In collaboration with The Joseph Brodsky Memorial Fellowship Fund
Writer Sergey Dovlatov (1941-1990) stands out in Russian literature for having placed his works on the border between fierce testimony and playful exaggerations about life. His independent way of thinking was fresh and reviving for many people during the Soviet times and it still is today. In 1979, after being expelled from the Union of Soviet Journalists and conscripted to military service, Dovlatov left Russia and moved to New York where he was free to publish his first two novels Kompromis (“The Compromise”) and Zapovednik (“The Nature Reserve”).