Early Life and Later Reflections The Earliest Years Looking Backwards: Early Autobiographical Fiction The White Guard More Versions of the Authorial Persona Satire -- Comedy -- Fantasy The Soviet Human Comedy: The Satirical Feuilletons and Stories The Roads Not Taken: The Satirical Novellas Conclusion Notes Bibliography
Edythe C. Haber is Associate Professor of Russian, University of Massachusetts, Boston, and Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University.
Haber’s approach produces a series of thoughtful and enlightening
essays on individual works, linked by a shaping idea that is never
allowed to contort the analysis. The book is written in the best
scholarly style: literary, fresh, fluent and always accessible. It
is an indispensable source of up-to-date information and
stimulating new ideas for undergraduates, postgraduates, teachers
and scholars in the field.
*Slavonic Review [UK]*
This pellucidly written study comprises six chapters of
groundbreaking scholarship on Mikhail Bulgakov, one of the most
extraordinary modern Russian writers… [The book] is a sensitive
panorama of turbulent times peopled with engrossing characters,
framed by Bulgakov’s vision and deliberations and especially by his
persistent theme of revolution as a loss of home. Haber sensitively
analyzes the stylistic and thematic links that run through each and
all of Bulgakov’s works, convincingly pulling together seemingly
disparate short stories… Haber’s original treatment of satirical
novellas is splendid, as are her discussions of Bulgakov’s
interweaving of divine and diabolical imagery. Her analysis is
based on elegant scholarship and a deep sympathy with her subject.
One hopes that Haber will write further on The Master and the
Margarita, for her pioneering discoveries about the development of
Bulgakov’s oeuvre deserves further development.
*Harvard Review*
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