Bulgakov's Last Decade: The Writer as Hero (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature)

J. A. E. Curtis

ISBN 10: 0521106524 / ISBN 13: 9780521106528

Published by Cambridge University Press 2005-09-02, 2005

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Title: Bulgakov's Last Decade: The Writer as Hero (...

Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2005-09-02

Publication Date: 2005

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

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Synopsis:

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.

Book Description:

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.