The Suitcase (novel)

The Suitcase is a novel by Sergei Dovlatov, published in Russian in 1986 and in English translation in 1990.^[1] Although loosely connected into a novel, The Suitcase is a collection of eight chapters based on eight items brought in the author's suitcase from the USSR to exile in the USA in 1978.^[2][3][4][5]

References

1. Hilary J. Teplitz, Exile in America Russian emigration, 1925-1999 Stanford University. Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures - 2003 Page 159 "In his novel, The Suitcase, which came out in Russian first in 1986 and then in English in 1990, Sergei Dovlatov uses the very deformation of relics to characterize his past. Like other emigre authors, Dovlatov addresses multiple readers in this ..."
2. Choice, American Library Association 1990 "... a wide American readership principally in The New Yorker. Although called a novel, The Suitcase is a collection of loosely connected vignettes inspired by the eight items of apparel in the author's suitcase brought from the USSR in 1978.
3. Jekaterina Young Sergei Dovlatov and His Narrative Masks 2009 p.157 0810125978 " For Dovlatov in The Suitcase, the ownership of a thing is reduced to a trivial and absurd event. It is testimony to the narrator's personal history and not to the history of the revolution. Dovlatov turns the value of ownership upside down; he uses elements of parody and irony in his stories in order to repudiate the value of owning the objects that were coveted in the Soviet Union..."
4. Marina Balina, Mark Naumovich Lipovet︠s︡kiĭ Russian Writers Since 1980 Volume 285 p.57 - 2004 "The novel takes its name from a battered old suitcase that the narrator, an Emigre, brought with him upon leaving the Soviet Union. He comes across the dust-covered object in his closet, and rummaging through its contents provides him with ..."
5. Journal of Australian Slavonic and East European Studies 2001 "Nashi is the apparent history of the Dovlatov family; Chemodan is an account of the contents of the suitcase Dovlatov was allowed to take with him from the Soviet Union into emigration..."