Notes on a Cuff and Other Stories: New Translation (Alma Classics): Mikhail Bulgakov - Softcover

Mikhail Bulgakov; Translated By Roger Cockrell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847493874 ISBN 13: 9781847493873

Publisher: Alma Classics, 2014

Synopsis

Brand new translation with many of the stories translated for the first time into English. Written between 1920 and 1921 while Bugakov was working in a hospital in the remote Caucasian outpost of Vladikavkaz, Notes on a Cuff is a series of journalistic sketches which show the young doctor trying to embark on a literary career among the chaos of war, disease, politics and bureaucracy. Stylistically brilliant and brimming with humour and literary allusion, Notes on a Cuff is presented here in a new translation, along with a collection of other short pieces by Bulgakov, many of them such as The Cockroach and A Dissolute Man published for the first time in the English language.

Contains: Notes on a Cuff, The Fire of the Khans, The Crimson Island, A Week of Enlightenment, The Unusual Adventureof a Doctor, Psalm, Moonshine Lake, Makar Devushkin's Story, A Scurvy Character, The Murderer, The Cockroach, A Dissolute Man.

Notes on a Cuff and Other Stories is part of Alma Classics's The Mikhail Bulgakov Collection which includes A Young Doctor's Notebook, A Dog's Heart, Black Snow, Diaboliad and Other Stories, Notes on a Cuff and Other Stories, The Fatal Eggs, The Life of Monsieur de Moliere, The Master and Margarita, The White Guard

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About this title

Review:

'This is a very good place to start on Bulgakov if you haven't read any of his work before. All his manic energy is here; and so, largely, is his talent. (...) In Notes on a Cuff you can see one of the most original voices of the 20th century starting to find itself. Congratulations to the publisher for making it available to us.' -- The Guardian

'Loyal fans will enjoy spotting the great writer's early seeds of talent.' --The Times

'Roger Cockrell's unstrained and highly readable translations capture with admirable versatility the whole gamut of situations, characters and voices encompassed in this absorbing collection of stories.' --East-West Review

'Vigorous, unevenly brilliant and deeply felt, (these stories) amply justify Bulgakov's attraction to the darker aspects of his times... they sparkle with herlter-skelter Gogolian verve.' --The Times Literary Supplement

About the Author:

Russian novelist and dramatist Mikhail Bulgakov (1891--1940) is one of the foremost satirists of the twentieth century and most famous for The Master and Margarita.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alma Classics
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1847493874
• ISBN 13: 9781847493873
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192