About a story: Sergey Dovlatov, “The Colonel Said I Love You”

In the story “The Colonel Said I Love You” by the famous prose writer Sergey Dovlatov, the author records, through small episodes of a certain person’s life and lifestyle, the lack of motivation to live in a Soviet country, the uncertainty of life, the absence of prospects, and the control of the authorities over all of this. Literary critics Hayk Hambardzumyan and Arkmenik Nikoghosyan discuss the story on the “Parallel Readings” program.