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Only edition in print in the UK of the lesser-known work by the acclaimed author of 'The Master and Margarita'. Includes pictures and a long apparatus about the author's life and works. Showcases Bulgakov's satirical gifts and is a forerunner of the docufiction genre. Completed in 1933, but not published until 1962, over twenty years after its author's death, "The Life of Monsieur de Moliere" charts the life of the French playwright, from humble beginnings to later theatrical triumphs and political controversies. The work was met with disapproval by the Soviet authorities, who detected parallels between the lives of Moliere and Bulgakov, and viewed the work as a veiled critique of their own times. With a dazzling blend of biography and novelistic imagination, Bulgakov's eccentric and satirical take on the life of a fellow writer energetically captures the genius of Moliere, while revealing another aspect of his own self.
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About the Author
Born in Kiev in 1891 to Russian parents, Mikhail Bulgakov trained as a doctor and volunteered for the Red Cross on the outbreak of the First World War. He later enlisted as a doctor for the anti-Bolshevik White Army, before eventually giving up medicine to concentrate on literature. The Master and Margarita is his most famous work, and has been hailed as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.
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- PublisherOneworld Classics Ltd
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1847491278
- ISBN 13 9781847491275
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- Number of pages208
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