Shine and poverty of Russian literature

In the book "the Brilliance and poverty of Russian literature" for the first time adequately presented to the linguistic prose of Sergei Dovlatov. He wrote about Pushkin and Tolstoi, V. Uplande and Sinyavsky, Kafka and Hemingway (as "Russian" and personal authors).
Reviews Dovlatov, coffee the chore, turn into literary portraits, sketches of literary mores and closes with the same "literature about literature" as "the Invisible book" or "Solo on the underwood".