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MANUSCRIPTS DON'T BURN
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV - A LIFE IN LETTERS AND DIARIES |
| By: |
Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov, J. A. E. Curtis (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£17.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0747508917 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780747508915 |
| Publisher: |
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC |
| Pub. date: |
25 April, 1991 |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
Although he was hardly published at all during his lifetime, Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita" has now become a worldwide bestseller. This is a collection of his letters and diaries illuminated by J.A.E. Curtis' own comments. She also wrote "Bulgakov's Last Decade". |
| Synopsis: |
In his own lifetime, Russian novelist and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov was scarcely published. A quarter of a century after his death, his novel, "The Master and the Margarita", has become a worldwide bestseller. In this book, J.A.E. Curtis presents a chronicle of Bulgakov's life. She is the only Westerner to have been granted access to either his or his wife's diaries which record the nightmarish precariousness of life during the Stalinist purges. She combines this with extracts from letters to and from Bulgakov and with her own commentary. She also includes letters to Stalin, in which Bulgalov pleads to be allowed to emigrate; letters to his siblings; intimate notes to his second and third wives; and letters to and from other writers such as Gorky and Zamyatin. |
| Illustrations: |
b&w photographs |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |