Most Popular Books by Mikhail Bulgakov

Komarov Case 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.

The Civil War is drawing to an end in Russia. The White Army is disintegrating and a wave of refugees is about to descend on Turkey, and then spread across Europe. Bulgakov''s play follows the fate of a small group of Russians from the Crimea to Constantinople to Paris. It is a tragic comedy that was never staged during the life of its author due to the opposition of Stalin. ""There is no doubt that this is one of the masterpieces of world theatre and in this solid production of a terrific translation it is well worth catching."" Peter Scott-Presland reviewing the production at the Jack Studio.

Professor Persikov, an eccentric zoologist, stumbles upon a new light ray that accelerates growth and reproduction rates in living organisms. In the wake of a plague that has decimated the country''s poultry stocks, Persikov''s discovery is exploited as a means to correct the problem. As foreign agents, the state and the Soviet media all seize upon the red ray, matters fet out of hand... Set in 1928 but written four years earlier, during Stalin''s rise to power, The Fatal Eggs is both an early piece of science fiction reminiscent of H.G. Wells and a biting, brilliant satire on the consequence of the abuse of power and knowledge.

Disappearances, destruction and death spread throughout Moscow like wildfire, and Margarita has discovered that her lover has vanished in the chaos. Making a bargain with the devil, she decides to try a little black magic of her own to save the man she loves.

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.

Shifting Accommodation 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.

The newest translation of the story “The Embroidered Towel” by Mikhail Bulgakov. Translated by S.E. Torrens. Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov was a Russian writer, medical doctor and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century. “The Embroidered Towel” is one of the most famous story from a short story collection A Young Doctor''s Notebook, also known as A Country Doctor''s Notebook.

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.

One of the world''s great plays about censorship and the oppression of artists is now newly translated by the renowned translators, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonksy (winner of two PEN/Book-Of-The-Month Translation Awards) and the playwright/director, Richard Nelson (Tony Award, Olivier Award). "Put yourselves in our place, ladies and gentlemen...the performance is over." ACT FOUR, MOLIÈRE OR THE CABAL OF HYPOCRITES Premiered on February 16, 1936 at the Moscow Art Theater, MOLIÈRE OR THE CABAL OF HYPOCRITES was banned after seven performances. "Invite[s] the theatergoer to see an analogy between the situation of a writer under the dictatorship of the proletariat and the ''tyranny without redress'' of Louis XIV." Chairman of the Committee for the Arts of the Soviet Union

�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.