White Guard - Hardcover

Mikhail Bulgakov; Translated By Marian Schwartz; Introduced By Evgeny Dobrenko

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ISBN 10: 030012242X ISBN 13: 9780300122428

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2008

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White Guard, Mikhail Bulgakovs semi-autobiographical first novel, revolves around a Ukrainian family in their home city of Kiev in 1918. Alexei, Elena, and Nikolka Turbin, adult siblings who have just lost their mother, find themselves plunged into the chaotic civil war that erupted in the wake of World War I and the Russian Revolution. In the context of this familys saga, Bulgakov recreates not only the moment-to-moment experience of battles, but also the long pauses that come before and after. He confronts the reader with the cruelty and violence that overtakes people and events, yet holds up for contrast individual acts of heroism and humanity. In this volume Marian Schwartz, a leading Russian translator, offers the first complete and accurate translation of the definitive original text of Bulgakovs novel. She includes the famous dream sequence, omitted in previous translations, and addresses the stylistic issues raised by Bulgakovs ornamental prose. Readers with an interest in Russian literature, culture, or history will welcome this superb translation of Bulgakovs important early work.

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`Marian Schwartz's pacey and compelling new translation of the most unstuffy classic captures a wonderful chronicle of the Russian Revolution.'
--BT, The Independent, 18th September 2009

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