Notes on the Cuff & Other StoriesThe stories collected here represent a sampling of the prose that first established Bulgakov as a major figure in the literary renaissance of Moscow in the 1920s, long before he became known as an influential playwright and novelist. The centerpiece of this collection is the long story "Notes on the Cuff", a comically autobiographical account of how the tenacious young writer managed to begin his literary career despite famine, typhus, civil war, the wrong political affiliation, and the Byzantine Moscow bureaucracy. This stylistically brilliant work was only partially published during Bulgakov's lifetime due to censorship, but was immediately recognized by the literati as an important work. The other stories collected here range from a sequence about the Civil War to Bulgakov's early reportage on the rebuilding of Moscow in the early 1920s, stories which now have a strikingly contemporary ring. Bulgakov describes the swindlers who arrived along with NEP, a program for the limited return to a market economy, as well as the vast reconstruction as the city is brought back from the destruction of civil war. Bulgakov, who burst on the world literary scene in the 1960s with the publication of his long-suppressed The Master and Margarita, has continued to enjoy tremendous success both in and out of Russia where productions of his plays and adaptations of his prose works have found new audiences. |
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And if only someone had smiled . The applause , nevertheless , was friendly . I
thought in confusion : that ' s for whatever just ended . With relief i departed to the
wings . I earned my two thousand , let someone else be the fall guy now .
Passing ...
And if only someone had smiled . The applause , nevertheless , was friendly . I
thought in confusion : that ' s for whatever just ended . With relief i departed to the
wings . I earned my two thousand , let someone else be the fall guy now .
Passing ...
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Whatever might happen , my fate was being decided . I knocked at the unlocked
door . In the semi - dark entrance hall there was a huge box of paper and the top
of a piano . I glimpsed a smoky room full of women . Someone began to pound ...
Whatever might happen , my fate was being decided . I knocked at the unlocked
door . In the semi - dark entrance hall there was a huge box of paper and the top
of a piano . I glimpsed a smoky room full of women . Someone began to pound ...
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XIX I Get Lito Going The literary historian should not forget : At the end of the
1921 , there were three people in the Republic who dealt with literature : an old
man ( dramas ; he did not , of course , turn out to be Emile Zola , but someone I
had ...
XIX I Get Lito Going The literary historian should not forget : At the end of the
1921 , there were three people in the Republic who dealt with literature : an old
man ( dramas ; he did not , of course , turn out to be Emile Zola , but someone I
had ...
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Gebruikersrecensie - nosajeel - LibraryThing(Note, I read the title novella and the first set of stories, but skipped most of the "Feuilletons"). I was excited to find a Bulgakov book that I hadn't yet read appear in translation. But the ... Volledige review lezen
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Gebruikersrecensie - jasonlf - LibraryThing(Note, I read the title novella and the first set of stories, but skipped most of the "Feuilletons"). I was excited to find a Bulgakov book that I hadn't yet read appear in translation. But the ... Volledige review lezen
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Red Stone Moscow | 121 |
The Capital in a Notebook | 129 |
Moscow City of Churches | 155 |
Copyright | |
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