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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That very evening we began writing . He had a hot , potbellied stove . His wife
hung up washing on a string in the room and then gave us some salad with
vegetable oil and tea with saccharin . He supplied typical names for the
characters , told ...
That very evening we began writing . He had a hot , potbellied stove . His wife
hung up washing on a string in the room and then gave us some salad with
vegetable oil and tea with saccharin . He supplied typical names for the
characters , told ...
Pagina 199
( the murdered men had indeed been those interested in horses after offering
them his horse at the cabstand he invited them to his apartment for negotiations )
, by himself , without any accomplices , after sending his wife and children out .
( the murdered men had indeed been those interested in horses after offering
them his horse at the cabstand he invited them to his apartment for negotiations )
, by himself , without any accomplices , after sending his wife and children out .
Pagina 200
When his first wife poisoned herself , it - this creature — said , “ Well , to hell with
her ! " When the creature married for the second time , it could not have cared
less about knowing where its wife was from or what sort of person she was .
When his first wife poisoned herself , it - this creature — said , “ Well , to hell with
her ! " When the creature married for the second time , it could not have cared
less about knowing where its wife was from or what sort of person she was .
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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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