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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Pagina 45
Open - mouthed , I looked at the dashing flourish for a few seconds . The young
man turned me around by the sleeve , “ Go upstairs , quickly , before he leaves .
Quickly . ” I flew like an arrow upstairs . I tore through the door , sweeping through
...
Open - mouthed , I looked at the dashing flourish for a few seconds . The young
man turned me around by the sleeve , “ Go upstairs , quickly , before he leaves .
Quickly . ” I flew like an arrow upstairs . I tore through the door , sweeping through
...
Pagina 112
Varvara Afanasievna rushed to Kolka and put her hand over his mouth . Doctor
Bakaleinikov saw the first murder of his life second by second on the turning point
as the night of the second turned into the third . At midnight , near the entrance to
...
Varvara Afanasievna rushed to Kolka and put her hand over his mouth . Doctor
Bakaleinikov saw the first murder of his life second by second on the turning point
as the night of the second turned into the third . At midnight , near the entrance to
...
Pagina 142
The soloists , turned blue by the stage makeup , cut through the thundering
clamor of the chorus and brass instruments . The curtain falls . Lights .
Immediately there is the desire for sandwiches and a smoke . The first is
impossible , because to ...
The soloists , turned blue by the stage makeup , cut through the thundering
clamor of the chorus and brass instruments . The curtain falls . Lights .
Immediately there is the desire for sandwiches and a smoke . The first is
impossible , because to ...
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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
Inhoudsopgave
Red Stone Moscow | 121 |
The Capital in a Notebook | 129 |
Moscow City of Churches | 155 |
Copyright | |
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