Notes on the Cuff & Other StoriesArdis, 1991 - 223 pagina's The 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 65
... beard rushes in and says reproach- fully , " Vodka ? Oh , dear ! What do you mean , Lev Ivanovich ? " " What do you mean by calling me Lev Ivanovich ? It's Nikolaevich ! Get out of my house ! Out ! I don't want any Dukhobors here ...
... beard rushes in and says reproach- fully , " Vodka ? Oh , dear ! What do you mean , Lev Ivanovich ? " " What do you mean by calling me Lev Ivanovich ? It's Nikolaevich ! Get out of my house ! Out ! I don't want any Dukhobors here ...
Pagina 79
... beard . " Please , so I can stage my revolutionary play , ” I said . " No. " The bearded man carried the kettle up a plank and into the freight car . I sat on my blanket beside the hot rails and lit a cigarette . A stifling , intense ...
... beard . " Please , so I can stage my revolutionary play , ” I said . " No. " The bearded man carried the kettle up a plank and into the freight car . I sat on my blanket beside the hot rails and lit a cigarette . A stifling , intense ...
Pagina 149
... beard drag two puffs after reading the sign , than a young man with a pleasant but intransigent face popped up : " Twenty million . ” The indignation of the black beard knew no bounds . It did not want to pay . I waited for an outburst ...
... beard drag two puffs after reading the sign , than a young man with a pleasant but intransigent face popped up : " Twenty million . ” The indignation of the black beard knew no bounds . It did not want to pay . I waited for an outburst ...
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Red Stone Moscow | 121 |
The Capital in a Notebook | 129 |
Moscow City of Churches | 155 |
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