Mikhail Bulgakov

A Kyiv family is caught up in the Ukrainian War of Independence in this novel by the author of The Master and Margarita, drawing from his own life. Reds, Whites, German troops, and Ukrainian nationalists battle for control of the city of Kyiv as the war becomes more tumultuous in Mikhail Bulgakov's debut novel, The White Guard. Drawing heavily from the author's own experiences in Ukraine during the period of the Russian Civil War-he witnessed ten...

"Mikhail Bulgakov's absurdist parable of the Russian Revolution. A world-famous Moscow professor -- rich, successful, and violently envied by his neighbors -- befriends a stray dog and resolves to achieve a daring scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a dead man. But the results are wholly unexpected: a distinctly and worryingly human animal is on the loose, and the professor's hitherto respectable life becomes...

Mikhail Bulgakov's Diaboliad and Other Stories, comprised of Diaboliad, No. 13—The Elpit Workers' Commune, A Chinese Tale, and The Adventures of Chichikov, serves as an excellent introduction to this renowned Russian satirist and playwright's work. Black comedy, biting social and political commentary, and Bulgakov's unique narrative exuberance combine to tell the tales of labyrinthine post-Revolution bureaucracy; clashes between science, the intellectual...

The Redstone Moscow” - is a splendid essay by the famous Russian writer, playwright and theatrical personage Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891 - 1940). This is an ordinary Moscow landscape. The trams are buzzing, the children are having fun, the newspaper sellers are shouting along the whole street, trying to draw the passers-by's attention and the cars are rushing along the road.

Moscow of the 20-s” - is a fascinating short story by the famous Russian writer, playwright and theatrical personage Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891 - 1940). The narrator in his time has walked along Moscow far and wide and he knows every street and every house. He shares his memories about the city in the 20-s of the XX century, about its houses with the lifts which did not work, about the communal flats with the thin walls and about the painful...

Darkly humorous short fiction set in the early years of the Soviet Union, by the author of The Master and Margarita. A collection of comic, self-aware, and stylistically dazzling short stories touching on such familiar territory for many Russian authors as disease, famine, civil war, and political turmoil, Notes on a Cuff and Other Stories showcases the style that Mikhail Bulgakov would be known for during the literary and theatrical renaissance...

The chickens come home to roost in this "brilliantly strange" blend of science fiction and political satire by the author of The Master and Margarita (The Guardian, UK). As the new reality of post-Revolution Soviet life begins to settle in, a gifted but eccentric zoologist named Persikov invents a machine that revolutionizes the growth of living organisms by drastically increasing their size and reproductive rates. Meanwhile, a mysterious...

The Outer Darkness” - is a fascinating short story by the famous Russian writer, playwright, and theatrical personage Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891 - 1940). Once in the evening the boy from the neighboring village arrives to the village doctor. The doctor examines him and diagnosticates malaria and sends him to the hospital. At night the doctor is woken up by the scared nurse, who asks to run to the patient very urgently.

Le Maître et Marguerite est un roman fantastique et satirique publié par sa femme vingt-six ans après sa mort, en 1966, qui lui a conféré l'immortalité critique. Le livre a été disponible dans la clandestinité, sous forme de samizdat ("sam "+"izdat" - "auto-publié", Vladimir Boukovski le définissant comme "je le crée moi-même, je l'édite, je le censure,...

El Maestro y Margarita es una novela fantástica satírica publicada por su esposa veintiséis años después de su muerte, en 1966, que le ha otorgado la inmortalidad crítica. El libro estuvo disponible en la clandestinidad, como samizdat ("sam "+ "izdat" - "autoeditado", Vladimir Bukovsky lo definió como "yo mismo lo creo, lo edito, lo censuro, lo publico, lo distribuyo, y [puedo] ser encarcelado por ello"),...