谢尔盖·多甫拉托夫是俄罗斯侨民文学“第三浪潮”的著名代表作家,苏联知识分子在美国的边缘生存状态是其文学创作的重要主题之一。中篇小说《看不见的报纸》《外国女人》《分支》分别以报刊编辑多甫拉托夫、单亲母亲玛鲁夏、电台主持人多尔马托夫为主人公,记录了他们在追寻文化身份过程中所遭遇的失落、漂泊和无根感。三位主人公代表移民者三种不同的社会身份,并分别以职业定位、爱情归属及苏联回忆为策略来实现身份构建。通过对三位主人公身份问题的解读,我们也可探究出作家多甫拉托夫对其本人身份问题的态度。 Sergey Taupovtov is a well-known representative writer of Russian diaspora literature “The Third Wave”. One of the major themes of his literary creation is that Soviet intellectuals living on the edge of the United States. The novella “Invisible Newspaper” and “Foreign Woman” “Branches” respectively take newspapers and periodicals like Togurattov, single mother Marouath, and radio host Dormatov as their main characters, recording their pursuit of cultural identity The process of encounter the loss, drift and rootless feeling. The three protagonists represent three different social identities of immigrants and establish their identities with occupational orientation, love affiliation and Soviet memory as tactics. Through the interpretation of the identity of the three protagonists, we can also explore the attitude of the writer Doprattov on his own identity.