by Sergueï Dovlátov · Ikusager Ediciones, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788489213159
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«La zona» is the satirical novel by Sergueï Dovlátov, published by Ikusager Ediciones in hardcover (222 pages, in Spanish).
Novelization of Dovlátov's months as a guard in a Soviet camp in the early sixties. It alternates prison vignettes with letters from the narrator to an editor, whom he tries to convince to publish the book. Irony and black humor show the absurdity of prison life and blur the line between guards and prisoners.
2009 edition with a prologue by Care Santos, translation by Ana Alcorta and Moisés Ramírez, in the Correría collection.
Will appeal to readers of Russian fiction and to those seeking a literary approach to the Soviet prison universe.
