Bulgakov's Last Decade: The Writer as Hero

by J. A. E. Curtis

• ISBN13: 9780521106528
• ISBN10: 0521106524
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-03
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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 Moli+re. Bulgakov emerges as a belated romantic, a figure unique on the early Soviet literacy scene.

Table of Contents

Preface

Notes

The tempering of the steel

Bulgakov and Moliÿre

Pushkin and Gogol - Bulgakov's Russian masters

The Master and Margarita - Manuscripts don't burn

A Romantic vision

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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