Brilliant stories which show the growth of a novelist's mind, and the raw material which fed the wild surrealism of Bulgakov's later fiction
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891 - 1940) was born and educated in Kiev where he graduated as a doctor in 1916. He rapidly abandoned medicine to write some of the greatest Russian literature of this century. After a lifetime at odds with the stultifying Soviet regime, he died impoverished and blind in 1940, shortly after completing his masterpiece, The Master and Margarita. None of his major fiction was published during his lifetime.
Stories as keen and bright as a scalpel... Courage shines from
every angle of this profoundly human collection by the greatest of
modern Russian writers
*Sunday Times*
A marvellous writer
*Michael Frayn*
The oil lamps of his little provincial hospital seemed to him a
lonely beacon which symbolised the battle between light and
darkness... These straighforward yet extraordinary sketches gain
their strength from also being the account of a young man's growth.
One begins to see that he became a novelist not because he had
material but because he was storing up passion and temperament
*New Statesman*
Wryly funny and fascinating
*Sunday Times*
Blizzards blow, wolves run loose in the forests, the doctor duels
with Death, who is never satisfied
*Harpers & Queen*
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