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[Svetlana McCoy]

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 14:12:59 -0400, Katz, Michael <mkatz at MIDDLEBURY.EDU> wrote:

>I should know this, but...
>
>"My homeland is not Russia, but Russian literature."
>
>Correct?
>Who wrote it?
>When and where?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Michael Katz

Sergey Dovlatov said something similar in an interview to Viktor Erofeev in
1990 (published as "Dar organicheskogo bezzlobija"):

"Ja russkij po professii...
Moja professija - byt' russkim avtorom...
...za mnoj, kak za kazhdym iz nas... stoit russkaja kul'tura."

(Quoting from: Sergey Dovlatov. Sobranie Sochinenij. St. Petersburg:
Azbuka-Klassika. Vol. 4, p. 388.)

-- Sveta McCoy

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