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From the author of MASTER AND MARGARITA, BLACK SNOW and DIABOLIAD, a novel which features a Moscow professor who befriends a stray dog and transplants into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a dead man, unleashing a human dog which turns the professor's life into a nightmare beyond endurance. ... Read more

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Pocketbook in Russian Language. Publisher - Eksmo. Moscow, 2010. The Master and Margarita is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, woven around the premise of a visit by the Devil to the fervently atheistic Soviet Union. Many critics consider the book to be one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, as well as one of the foremost Soviet satires, directed against a suffocatingly bureaucratic social order. ... Read more

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The largest collection available in English of the bestSoviet playwright of the twentieth century. This edition includes: TheDays of the Turbins, Zoya's Apartment, Flight, The Crimson Island andA Cabal of Hypocrites (Moliere). ... Read more

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In his own lifetime, Russian novelist and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov was scarcely published. A quarter of a century after his death, his novel, "The Master and the Margarita", has become a worldwide bestseller. In this book, J.A.E. Curtis presents a chronicle of Bulgakov's life. She is the only Westerner to have been granted access to either his or his wife's diaries which record the nightmarish precariousness of life during the Stalinist purges. She combines this with extracts from letters to and from Bulgakov and with her own commentary. She also includes letters to Stalin, in which Bulgalov pleads to be allowed to emigrate; letters to his siblings; intimate notes to his second and third wives; and letters to and from other writers such as Gorky and Zamyatin. ... Read more

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Essential reading if you admire Bulgakov's work
Since I can't read Russian, I have to read Bulgakov's marvelous plays and novels ("Heart of a Dog", "The Master and Margarita", "Bliss") in translation. Nor did I experience, first-hand, the horrors of the Stalin purges.

I love the work of Bulgakov--he's a master of satire and imagination. This biography in letters and notes is really essential for the non-Russian reader to get a sense of his history, life and work in a way that can't be conveyed in translation. It put all that I had read by Bulgakov into a far more comprehensible light.

Essential reading if you admire Bulgakov's work
Since I can't read Russian, I have to read Bulgakov's marvelous plays and novels ("Heart of a Dog", "The Master and Margarita", "Bliss") in translation. Nor did I experience, first-hand, the horrors of the Stalin purges.

I love the work of Bulgakov--he's a master of satire and imagination. This biography in letters and notes is really essential for the non-Russian reader to get a sense of his history, life and work in a way that can't be conveyed in translation. It put all that I had read by Bulgakov into a far more comprehensible light. ... Read more

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Great drama works
Bulgakov is beloved for his novel "Master and Margarita", a surreal working of the Faust legend set in Stalinist Russia. These two plays "Flight" and "Bliss" show Bulgakov's real forte--drama. He authored plays (not published in his lifetime) and worked as a stage director (an assistant director, all he was allowed by the Soviet government, who knew him for an independent thinker.)

Both plays are very readable, despite the workaday translations. Bulgakov's flights of fancy and sarcasm (a future world without crime, for example) are comic yet scary.If you want to really get to know Bulgakov's work, these plays, plus "Heart of a Dog". "White Guard" and "Master and Margarita" make a good starting collection of his best works. ... Read more

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Tvorchestvo Mikhaila Bulgakova okazyvaet kolossal'noe vliyanie na sovremennyj mir. I ne potomu, chto ego priznayut genial'nym pisatelem, zlatoustom. Bulgakov byl ne menee genial'nym myslitelem, sposobnym ne tol'ko pravil'no otsenit' samye slozhnye i zaputannye obschestvenno-politicheskie situatsii, no i predvidet' obozrimoe buduschee. Bolee dvadtsati pyati let shel k chitatelyu roman "Master i Margarita", rabotu nad kotorym avtor prodolzhal i v poslednie dni svoej zhizni. V nastoyaschem izdanii predstavlen polnyj tekst proizvedeniya, vossozdannyj na osnove lichnogo arkhiva M.A.Bulgakova. ... Read more