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 55
... immediately be seized and thrown out ) , I walked along the semi - dark corri- dor . Finally I became convinced that something was wrong . In the darkness above the door leading into the adjoining , brightly lit room , there burned a ...
... immediately be seized and thrown out ) , I walked along the semi - dark corri- dor . Finally I became convinced that something was wrong . In the darkness above the door leading into the adjoining , brightly lit room , there burned a ...
Pagina 67
... immediately calculated how many saccharin tablets I had left ... Enough for five to six days . The old man burst boisterously into the room . " I've put an end to their plot , " he said . No sooner had he spoken than the head of an old ...
... immediately calculated how many saccharin tablets I had left ... Enough for five to six days . The old man burst boisterously into the room . " I've put an end to their plot , " he said . No sooner had he spoken than the head of an old ...
Pagina 142
... Immediately there is the desire for sandwiches and a smoke . The first is impossible , because to afford sandwiches you have to make about ten billion a month . The second is possible . By the cloakrooms is a draft , a curtain of smoke ...
... Immediately there is the desire for sandwiches and a smoke . The first is impossible , because to afford sandwiches you have to make about ten billion a month . The second is possible . By the cloakrooms is a draft , a curtain of smoke ...
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Red Stone Moscow | 121 |
The Capital in a Notebook | 129 |
Moscow City of Churches | 155 |
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