Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков

Set in Kiev during the Russian revolution White Guard tells a story about the war's effect on a middle-class family and was turned into a hugely successful play on publication. It brought the author overnight success and became 'a new Seagull' for the new generation, although it also received hostile reviews for the sympathetic portrayal of White officers. Paradoxically, The White Guard was one of Stalin's favorite plays. It was banned in 1929, reinstated in 1932 but published only in 1955.

A superb comic masterpiece and fierce parable of the Russian Revolution by the author of The Master and Margarita. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ANDREY KURKOVA rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a recently deceased man. A distinctly worryingly human animal is now on the loose, and the professor's hitherto respectable life becomes a nightmare beyond endurance. An absurd and superbly comic story, this classic novel can also be read as a fierce parable of the Russian Revolution.

Sergei Maksudov has failed as a novelist and made a farce of a suicide attempt, but only after a surprise break as a playwright on the Moscow stage does his turmoil truly begin. Thrown uncomprehending into theatre life, he soon sees his beloved play dragged into chaos by inflated egos, jealous critics, literary double-dealers, communist censors and insanely bad acting. -- Cover p. .

The Master and Margarita (Russian: Мастер и Маргарита) is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940. The story concerns a visit by the devil and his entourage to the officially atheist Soviet Union. The devil, manifested as one Professor Woland, challenges the Soviet citizens' beliefs towards religion and condemns their behavior throughout the book. The Master and Margarita combines supernatural elements with satirical dark comedy and Christian philosophy, defying categorization within a single genre. Many critics consider it to be one of the best novels of the 20th century, as well as the foremost of Soviet satires. A censored version, with several chapters cut by editors, was published posthumously in Moscow magazine in 1966–1967 by his widow Elena Bulgakova. The manuscript was not published as a book until 1967, in Paris. A samizdat version circulated that included parts cut out by official censors, and these were incorporated in a 1969 version published in Frankfurt. The novel has since been published in several languages and editions.

In 1916 a 25-year-old, newly qualified doctor named Mikhail Bulgakov was posted to the remote Russian countryside. He brought to his position a diploma and a complete lack of field experience. And the challenges he faced didn't end there: he was assigned to cover a vast and sprawling territory that was as yet unvisited by modern conveniences such as the motor car, the telephone, and electric lights.

The stories collected here represent a sampling of the prose that first established Bulgakov as a major figure in the literary renaissance of Moscow in the 1920s, long before he became known as an influential playwright and novelist. The centerpiece of this collection is the long story "Notes on the Cuff," a comically autobiographical account of how the tenacious young writer managed to begin his literary career despite famine, typhus, civil war, the wrong political. Affiliation, and the Byzantine Moscow bureaucracy. This stylistically brilliant work was only partially published during Bulgakov's lifetime due to censorship, but was immediately recognized by the literati as an important work. The other stories collected here range from a sequence about the Civil War to Bulgakov's early reportage on the rebuilding of Moscow in the early 1920s, stories which now have a strikingly contemporary ring. Bulgakov describes the swindlers who. Arrived along with NEP, a program for the limited return to a market economy, as well as the vast reconstruction as the city is brought back from the destruction of civil war. Bulgakov, who burst on the world literary scene in the 1960s with the publication of his long-suppressed The Master and Margarita, has continued to enjoy tremendous success both in and out of Russia where productions of his plays and adaptations of his prose works have found new audiences.

Diese Erstedition der frühesten Prosatexte von Michail Bulgakov, die in den Jahren 1922-1924 in heute kaum zugängigen Periodica abgedruckt waren, füllt eine wesentliche Lücke in der Bulgakov-Forschung. Sie bilden eine Bereicherung unserer Vorstellung vom Moskau der 20er Jahre. Frühe unveröffentlichte Prosa.

Das Theaterstück "Belaja gvardija", das Michail Bulgakov (1891-1940) aufgrund seines gleichnamigen Bürgerkriegsromans geschrieben hat, ist bisher nur in der dritten, den Wünschen der Zensur angepaßten Fassung unter dem Titel "Dni Turbinych" bekannt. Die Weiße Garde. In der zweiten Fassung.

Nach "Rannjaja neizdannaja proza" (1976) und "Rannjaja nesobrannaja proza" (1970) können nunmehr mit "Rannjaja neizvestnaja proza" (1981) zum dritten Male Texte des frühen Michail Bulgakov der Wissenschaft und dem Leser vorgelegt werden, die seit über einem halben Jahrhundert praktisch unerreichbar waren. Den Schwerpunkt bilden humoristische Feuilletons, die in der Eisenbahnerzeitung "Gudok" 1923-1926 erschienen sind.

"The career of Mikhail Bulgakov, the author of Master and Margarita—now regarded as one of the masterpieces of 20th-century literature—was characterized by a constant and largely unsuccessful struggle against state censorship. This suppression did not only apply to his art: in 1926 his personal diary was seized by the authorities. From then on he confined his thoughts to letters to his friends and family, as well as to public figures such as Stalin and his fellow Soviet writer Gorky, while also encouraging his wife Yelena to keep a diary, with many entries influenced or even dictated by him. This selection from the diaries and letters of the Bulgakovs provides an insightful glimpse into a fascinating period of Russian history and literature, telling the tragic tale of the fate of an artist under a totalitarian regime."--Publisher description.

Zum zweiten Male können in dieser Reihe wichtige, der Forschung bisher nicht zugängige Texte Michail Bulgakovs veröffentlicht werden. In Zeitungen wie "Gudok" und kleineren Zeitschriften sind sie in den zwanziger Jahren in der Sowjetunion erschienen, nur wenige wurden, z.T. gekürzt, nach Bulgakovs später Rückkehr in die russische Literatur nachgedruckt. Sie erweitern das Bild vom frühen Bulgakov, sie ergänzen die Vorstellung vom Alltag in der Sowjetunion nach der bolschewistischen Machtergreifung, sie bilden ein Stück geretteter russischer Literatur.