A Country Doctor's Notebook
Mikhail Bulgakov author Michael Glenny translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:7th Jan '10
Should be back in stock very soon
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
TRANSLATED BY MICHAEL GLENNY
With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia which, in 1916-17, was still largely unaffected by such novelties as the motor car, the telephone or electric light.
TRANSLATED BY MICHAEL GLENNY
With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia which, in 1916-17, was still largely unaffected by such novelties as the motor car, the telephone or electric light. How his alter-ego copes (or fails to cope) with the new and often appalling responsibilities of a lone doctor in a vast country practice - on the eve of Revolution - is described in Bulgakov's delightful blend of candid realism and imaginative exuberance.
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 -- V.S. Pritchett * 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 *
ISBN: 9780099529569
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 9mm
Weight: 117g
160 pages