DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

Bulgakov's Last Decade

The Writer as Hero

J A E Curtis author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:3rd Sep '09

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Bulgakov's Last Decade cover

This book was the first full-length interpretative study in English of the later writings of the outstanding Soviet novelist and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov.

This book was the first full-length interpretative study in English of the later writings of the outstanding Soviet novelist and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940). The focus is the 1930s, the period when Bulgakov was writing The Master and Margarita, an extraordinary novel which has had a profound impact in the Soviet Union and which is now generally regarded as his masterpiece.Published in 1987, this book was the first full-length interpretative study in English of the later writings of the outstanding Soviet novelist and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940). The focus is the 1930s, the period when Bulgakov was writing The Master and Margarita, an extraordinary novel that has had a profound impact in the Soviet Union and which is now generally regarded as his masterpiece. Using material from Soviet archives and libraries, Dr Curtis suggests that Bulgakov's fundamental preoccupation in this movel with the destiny of literature and of the writer is reflected in other major works of the same period, in particular his writings on Pushkin and Molière. Bulgakov emerges as a belated romantic, a figure unique on the early Soviet literacy scene.

ISBN: 9780521106528

Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm

Weight: 340g

264 pages