New Releases by Mikhail Bulgakov

Il Maestro e Margherita , pubblicato postumo nel 1967, è uno dei romanzi più celebri di Mikhail Bulgakov e rappresenta un capolavoro della letteratura del XX secolo. L''opera mescola realismo, fantasia e satira per offrire una visione originale e profonda della società sovietica. La storia si sviluppa su più livelli narrativi. Da un lato, racconta l''arrivo del misterioso Woland, una figura diabolica, nella Mosca degli anni ''30, dove provoca una serie di eventi strani e inquietanti che mettono in luce l''ipocrisia e la corruzione della società. Dall''altro lato, segue la vicenda del Maestro, uno scrittore perseguitato, e della sua amata Margherita, simbolo di amore e sacrificio. Parallelamente, il romanzo presenta anche una narrazione ambientata nell''antica Gerusalemme, che ripercorre la storia di Ponzio Pilato e il suo incontro con Gesù. Questo intreccio tra epoche e dimensioni diverse arricchisce il significato dell''opera, creando un dialogo tra realtà, storia e immaginazione. Attraverso elementi fantastici e simbolici, Bulgakov affronta temi come il bene e il male, la libertà, la verità e il potere dell''arte. Il romanzo si distingue per la sua struttura complessa e per la capacità di unire critica sociale, riflessione filosofica e dimensione poetica. Il Maestro e Margherita è considerato uno dei romanzi più originali e influenti della letteratura moderna. Il suo autore, Mikhail Bulgakov, fu uno scrittore russo del XX secolo, noto per il suo stile satirico e per la critica al regime sovietico. Le sue opere, spesso censurate durante la sua vita, hanno ottenuto un enorme riconoscimento solo dopo la sua morte, diventando fondamentali nella letteratura mondiale.

This is Bulgakov''s semi-autobiographical story of a writer who fails to sell his novel and fails to commit suicide. When his play is taken up by the theatre, literary success beckons, but he has reckoned without the grotesquely inflated egos of the actors, directors and theatre managers.

The Heart of a Dog is a novella that blends science fiction with sharp social commentary. The story centers on a stray dog named Sharik, who is taken in by a scientist, Professor Preobrazhensky. The professor performs an experimental surgery on Sharik, transplanting human organs into the dog, which causes Sharik to transform into a human-like creature named Poligraf Poligrafovich Sharikov. Sharikov''s transformation and subsequent behavior serve as a biting satire of the Soviet attempt to create a new socialist citizen. Sharikov becomes a crude, vulgar, and opportunistic character, embodying the worst traits of humanity. The novella explores themes of identity, the ethics of scientific experimentation, and the clash between nature and nurture.

Psalm is a famouse short story of ukraіnian wrighter Mikhail Bulgakov. Bulgakov was a Soviet playwright, novelist, and short story writer best known for his humor and penetrating satire. Because of their realism and humor, Bulgakov’s works enjoyed great popularity, but their trenchant criticism of Soviet mores was increasingly unacceptable to the authorities.

When a stray dog dying on the streets of Moscow is taken in by a wealthy professor, he is subjected to medical experiments in which he receives various transplants of human organs. As he begins to transform into a rowdy, unkempt human by the name of Poligraf Poligrafovich Sharikov, his actions distress the professor and those surrounding him, although he finds himself accepted into the ranks of the Soviet state. A parodic reworking of the Frankenstein myth and a vicious satire of the Communist revolution and the concept of the New Soviet man, A Dog’s Heart was banned by the censors in 1925 and circulated only in samizdat form. Nowadays this hugely entertaining tale has become very popular in Russia, and has inspired many adaptations across the world.

Rare edition with unique illustrations.Predstavljat'' chitateljam roman Bulgakova "Master i Margarita" net neobhodimosti.Ego nazyvajut "shedevrom mirovoj literatury", "samym zagadochnym romanom 20-go veka","velikim", dazhe - "zakatnym" i prochee, prochee... Ego issledujut filologi, voshishhajutsjaili rugajut chitateli, o nem pishut pesni, snimajut fil''my.«Master i Margarita» - blistatel''nyj shedevr, sozdannyj Mihailom Bulgakovym, zavorazhivajushhaja misticheskaja d''javoliada, obnazhajushhaja vechnye temy ljubvi, bor''by dobra so zlom, smerti i bessmertija. Jeta kniga - na veka, ona ne terjaet svoej privlekatel''nosti; prochtja pervuju frazu: «V chas zharkogo vesennego zakata na Patriarshih prudah pojavilis'' dvoe grazhdan...», my dobrovol''no, neminuemo i bezvozvratno pogruzhaemsja v mir Mastera, Margarity, Pilata, Volanda, Azazello s Korov''evym i drugih geroev romana.

Rare edition with unique illustrations.«Belaja gvardija» - ne prosto roman, no svoeobraznaja «hronika vremeni» - hronika, uvidennaja cherez prizmu vosprijatija «detej strashnyh let Rossii». Tragedija izdergannoj dvorjanskoj sem''i, zadyhajushhejsja v krovavom vodovorote grazhdanskoj vojny, pod perom Bulgakova obretaet cherty jepicheskoj tragedii vsej russkoj intelligencii - tragedii, otgoloski kotoroj donosjatsja do nas i teper''...

�Beg� - p'esa vydayushchegosya russkogo pisatelya i dramaturga Mihaila Bulgakova.Dejstvie p'esy razvorachivaetsya vo vremya Grazhdanskoj vojny v Rossii, kogda ostatki beloj armii otchayanno soprotivlyayutsya krasnym na Krymskom pereshejke. Zdes' tesno perepletayutsya sud'by bezzashchitnoj Serafimy Korzuhinoj, broshennoj na proizvol sud'by muzhem, samogo Korzuhina, privat-docenta Golubkova, vlyublyonnogo v Serafimu, belogo generala CHarnoty, komanduyushchego frontom belyh, zhestokogo i neschastnogo Romana Hludova, i mnogih drugih geroev.

Satan, Judas, a Soviet writer, and a talking black cat named Behemoth populate this satire, " a classic of twentieth-century fiction" ( The New York Times). In 1930s Moscow, Satan decides to pay the good people of the Soviet Union a visit. In old Jerusalem, the fateful meeting of Pilate and Yeshua and the murder of Judas in the garden of Gethsemane unfold. At the intersection of fantasy and realism, satire and unflinching emotional truths, Mikhail Bulgakov''s classic The Master and Margarita eloquently lampoons every aspect of Soviet life under Stalin''s regime, from politics to art to religion, while interrogating the complexities between good and evil, innocence and guilt, and freedom and oppression. Spanning from Moscow to Biblical Jerusalem, a vibrant cast of characters—a "magician" who is actually the devil in disguise, a giant cat, a witch, a fanged assassin—sow mayhem and madness wherever they go, mocking artists, intellectuals, and politicians alike. In and out of the fray weaves a man known only as the Master, a writer demoralized by government censorship, and his mysterious lover, Margarita. Burned in 1928 by the author and restarted in 1930, The Master and Margarita was Bulgakov''s last completed creative work before his death. It remained unpublished until 1966—and went on to become one of the most well-regarded works of Russian literature of the twentieth century, adapted or referenced in film, television, radio, comic strips, theater productions, music, and opera.

"Bulgakov''s strong point was his ability to amplify the roots of man''s dementia, the howls of political pandemonium . . . a lively collection." — The Washington Post Book World Mikhail Bulgakov''s Diaboliad and Other Stories, comprised of Diaboliad, No. 13–The Elpit Workers'' Commune, A Chinese Tale, and The Adventures of Chichikov, serves as an excellent introduction to this renowned Russian satirist and playwright''s work. Black comedy, biting social and political commentary, and Bulgakov''s unique narrative exuberance combine to tell the tales of labyrinthine post-Revolution bureaucracy; clashes between science, the intellectual class, and the state; and the high price to be paid for the promised utopian world of Communism in early Soviet Russia. Bulgakov''s signature eloquent skewering of the various shortcomings of the world around and within him can be found on every page, and horror and magic interweave in a constant dance of the absurd—a dance that would reach its highest point both stylistically and thematically in Bulgakov''s tour de force novel The Master and Margarita. "One of the most original voices of the twentieth century." — The Guardian, UK

A Kyiv family is caught up in the Ukrainian War of Independence in this novel by the author of The Master and Margarita, drawing from his own life. Reds, Whites, German troops, and Ukrainian nationalists battle for control of the city of Kyiv as the war becomes more tumultuous in Mikhail Bulgakov''s debut novel, The White Guard. Drawing heavily from the author''s own experiences in Ukraine during the period of the Russian Civil War—he witnessed ten changes of government himself— The White Guard is told from alternating points of view and takes an unusual angle in the conflict between Russian Whites (with whom the Turbin family identify) and Ukrainian nationalists. It elegantly portrays the chaos of a civil war in which there is no good or evil, only loyalty to one''s friends, family, and convictions. First appearing in partial form in a Soviet-era literary journal, the story was turned into a play under the title The Days of the Turbins—a long-running hit that Stalin himself attended twenty times—yet was not published widely until decades after Bulgakov''s death.

A dark, fantastical satire of Communist utopianism by the author of The Master and Margarita. Lauded Russian author and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov''s A Dog''s Heart (sometimes translated as The Heart of a Dog) is a zany, violent, and whimsical satire of the failures inherent in the dream of a Communist utopia, following dog-turned-human Sharik as he tries and fails utterly to live a life of goodness and virtue—but goodness and virtue as defined by whom? Both a nod to the Frankenstein myth and a vicious critique of the Soviet government''s attempts to reshape and redefine personhood during and after the Russian Revolution, A Dog''s Heart was rejected for publication by censors in 1925, but was circulated via samizdat—the clandestine production and distribution of literature that had been banned by the state—for years until it was translated into English in 1968. To this day, the book remains one of Bulgakov''s most highly regarded works.

In Bulgakov's 'Diaboliad', the modest and unassuming office clerk Korotkov is summarily sacked for a trifling error from his job at the Main Central Depot of Match Materials, and tries to seek out his newly assigned superior, responsible for his dismissal. His quest through the labyrinth of Soviet bureaucracy takes on the increasingly surreal dimensions of a nightmare. This early satirical story, reminiscent of Gogol and Dostoevsky, was first published in 1924 and incurred the wrath of pro-Soviet critics. Along with the three other stories in this volume, which also explore the themes of the absurd and bizarre, it provides a fascinating glimpse into the artistic development of the author of The Master and Margarita.

When Soviet censors approved Mikhail Bulgakov's ??? ?????, a stage adaptation of Don Quixote, they were unaware that they were sanctioning a subtle but powerful criticism of Stalinist rule. The author, whose novel ?????? ? ????????? would eventually bring him world renown, achieved this sleight of hand through a deft interpretation of Cervantes's knight. Bulgakov's Don Quixote fits comfortably into the nineteenth-century Russian tradition of idealistic, troubled intellectuals, but Quixote's quest becomes an allegory of the artist under the strictures of Stalin's regime. Bulgakov did not live to see the play performed: it went into production in 1940, only months after his death. The volume's introduction provides background for Bulgakov's adaptation and compares Bulgakov with Cervantes and the twentieth-century Russian work with the seventeenth-century Spanish work.

From the author of The Master and Margarita comes this short and tragic masterpiece about drug addiction Young Dr. Bromgard has come to a small country town to assume a new practice. No sooner has he arrived than he receives word that a colleague, Dr. Polyakov, has fallen gravely ill. Before Bromgard can go to his friend’s aid, Polyakov is brought to his practice in the middle of the night with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and, barely conscious, gives Bromgard his journal before dying. What Bromgard uncovers in the entries is Polyakov’s uncontrollable and merciless descent into morphine addiction — his first injection to ease his back pain, the thrill of the drug as it overtakes him, the looming signs of addiction, and the feverish final entries before his death.

Part autobiography, part fiction, this early work by the author of The Master and Margarita shows a master at the dawn of his craft, and a nation divided by centuries of unequal progress. In 1916 a 25-year-old, newly qualified doctor named Mikhail Bulgakov was posted to the remote Russian countryside. He brought to his position a diploma and a complete lack of field experience. And the challenges he faced didn’t end there: he was assigned to cover a vast and sprawling territory that was as yet unvisited by modern conveniences such as the motor car, the telephone, and electric lights. The stories in A Country Doctor’s Notebook are based on this two-year window in the life of the great modernist. Bulgakov candidly speaks of his own feelings of inadequacy, and warmly and wittily conjures episodes such as peasants applying medicine to their outer clothing rather than their skin, and finding himself charged with delivering a baby—having only read about the procedure in text books. Not yet marked by the dark fantasy of his later writing, this early work features a realistic and wonderfully engaging narrative voice—the voice, indeed, of twentieth century Russia’s greatest writer.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY TERRY GILLIAM When Maxudov's bid to take his own life fails, he dramatises the novel whose failure provoked the suicide attempt. To the resentment of literary Moscow, his play is accepted by the legendary Independent Theatre and Maxudov plunges into a vortex of inflated egos. With each rehearsal more sparks fly and the chances of the play being ready to perform recede. Black Snow is the ultimate back-stage novel and a brilliant satire by the author of The Master and Margarita on his ten-year love-hate relationship with Stanislavsky, Method-acting and the Moscow Arts Theatre.

in Bulgakov''s allegorical masterpiece of Stalin’s regime the devil is making a personal appearance in Moscow. He is accompanied by various demons, including a naked girl and a huge black cat. When he leaves, the asylums are full and the forces of law and order are in disarray. Only the Master, a writer and a man devoted to truth, and Margarita, the woman he loves, can resist the devil’s onslaught. ‘Stunning, superb...Bulgakov is one of the greatest Russian writers, perhaps the greatest’ Independent ‘A masterpiece – a classic of twentieth-century fiction’ New York Times TRANSLATED BY MICHAEL GLENNY, INTRODUCED BY WILL SELF

The first complete and accurate English translation of Bulgakov's classic novel, accompanied by a substantial historical introduction "Bulgakov's novel not only leads us into a majestic, more-than-1,000-year-old metropolis, but also gives us an understanding of how, in a single day, the world can change as radically as if decades had passed."--Marci Shore, The Atlantic "Bulgakov's novel evokes the suffering of the conflict and the still greater horrors that lay ahead."--Joshua Rubenstein, Wall Street Journal White Guard, Mikhail Bulgakov's semi-autobiographical first novel, is the story of the Turbin family in Kiev in 1918. Alexei, Elena, and Nikolka Turbin have just lost their mother--their father had died years before--and find themselves plunged into the chaotic civil war that erupted in the Ukraine in the wake of the Russian Revolution. In the context of this family's personal loss and the social turmoil surrounding them, Bulgakov creates a brilliant picture of the existential crises brought about by the revolution and the loss of social, moral, and political certainties. He confronts the reader with the bewildering cruelty that ripped Russian life apart at the beginning of the last century as well as with the extraordinary ways in which the Turbins preserved their humanity. In this volume Marian Schwartz, a leading translator, offers the first complete and accurate translation of the definitive original text of Bulgakov's novel. She includes the famous dream sequence, omitted in previous translations, and beautifully solves the stylistic issues raised by Bulgakov's ornamental prose. Readers with an interest in Russian literature, culture, or history will welcome this superb translation of Bulgakov's important early work. This edition also contains an informative historical essay by Evgeny Dobrenko.

Dette er forfatterens hovedverk, som han såvidt rakk å fullføre før sin død i 1940. Mens han skrev det, var han utestengt fra Sovjetunionens offentlige liv og opplevde mye motgang. Det er et verk som formmessig sprenger alle rammer, det er båd en krimroman, historisk roman, metafysisk roman, dannelsesroman, satire og epos. Den inneholder minst to ulike historier: den ene utspiller seg i Stalins Moskva, den andre i Jerusalem, der en prokurator får sjelefreden forstyrret når en underlig fange føres frem for ham. Handlingen i Moskva nesten 2000 år senere har en fantastisk form, hendelsen i Jerusalemskildres med streng realisme. Omtalen er utarbeidet av BS.

Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) is also the author of 'Black Snow' and 'The Master And Margarita'.

A selection of humorous and satirical novels and short stories by the great Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov, whose fine style of writing and sense of humor and irony are ultimately shining in this collection, including "The unusual adventures of the doctor", "The red crown", "The adventures of Chichikov", "Forty fortieth", "Moscow in the 20''s", "Hunters after the skulls", "The adventure of the dead", "Three kopecks", "Game of nature", "Exchange of substances", "About the benefit of alcoholism", "Water of life", "The champion of the world", and "The English pins."

Contains extensive selections from Bulgakov''s correspondence and diary, and from the diary of his wife Elena Sergeevna Bulgakova, translated from the Russian.

Reissued to tie-in with a new production of Flight at the Royal National Theatre, this volume contains six plays by Mikhail Bulgakov, a Soviet playwright whose work often brought him into conflict with the Soviet authorities.

Affiliation, and the Byzantine Moscow bureaucracy. This stylistically brilliant work was only partially published during Bulgakov's lifetime due to censorship, but was immediately recognized by the literati as an important work. The other stories collected here range from a sequence about the Civil War to Bulgakov's early reportage on the rebuilding of Moscow in the early 1920s, stories which now have a strikingly contemporary ring. Bulgakov describes the swindlers who.

A religious cabal, infuriated by Moliere's play 'Tartuffe', uncovers information that the playwright may have unwittingly married his own daughter, causing Moliere to lose the favour of King Louis XIV.