Review: The White Guard
Gebruikersrecensie - Peter - GoodreadsThe thing about The White Guard is that it manages to combine a fast paced plot full of action with writing that is lyrical, poetic and ingenious. It's rich in symbolism, beautifully written and ... Volledige recensie lezen
Review: White Guard
Gebruikersrecensie - Becky - GoodreadsAfter I finished reading the first time I went to the Introductions and read them. The one by the translator, Marian Schwartz, is very nice, informative - she did this in 2009. But the one by Evgeny ... Volledige recensie lezen
Review: The White Guard
Gebruikersrecensie - Dragan - Goodreadswhat a man can say but: Mischa, thank you. Read this for the first time some 25 years ago. Read it, understood it. Loved it, obviously. few years later i myself went through a similar experience of ... Volledige recensie lezen
Review: White Guard
Gebruikersrecensie - Danja - GoodreadsA beautiful book. This edition is translated by Marian Schwartz, and seemed like a very good translation. It takes place at a confusing point in history, with WWI just ended and the Russian revolution ... Volledige recensie lezen
Review: The White Guard
Gebruikersrecensie - Aaron - GoodreadsWhite Guard haunted me. As noted by other readers, the descriptions of Kiev are astounding. Even after my first visit to Kiev, I recognized many of the descriptions. In fact, I first learned of this ... Volledige recensie lezen
Review: The White Guard
Gebruikersrecensie - Ivan - GoodreadsA truthful and frightening recount of an ordinary pre-revolution family transformed by successive events in Ukrainian history. This isn't a horror story, and it doesn't have any gore, but the ... Volledige recensie lezen
Review: The White Guard
Gebruikersrecensie - Chris Watson - GoodreadsA beautiful book. Bulgakov expresses the horror and futility expertly, yet the story is still full of beauty and humour and is ultimately uplifting. Only such a master could paint a picture of the ... Volledige recensie lezen
Review: The White Guard
Gebruikersrecensie - Jayaprakash Satyamurthy - GoodreadsI wasn't sure if Bulgakov's first novel, described as a historical novel about the fortunes of the city of Kiev in the year 1918, as the repercussions of the Russian revolution and the tail-end of the ... Volledige recensie lezen
Review: The White Guard
Gebruikersrecensie - Calvin - GoodreadsOne of the masterpieces of Russian Literature Volledige recensie lezen
Review: The White Guard
Gebruikersrecensie - Michael - GoodreadsOriginally a play that, despite its sympathetic potrayal of a 'White' Kievan family during the Civil War following the Bolshevik Revolution, Stalin was fond of, (see the passage in The Life of ... Volledige recensie lezen
