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 54
He was also chewing on something. XXII An Unexpected Nightmare ...I swear, it's
a dream!! What kind of wizardry is this?! Today I was two hours late for work. I
turned the handle, opened the door, walked in and looked: the room was empty.
He was also chewing on something. XXII An Unexpected Nightmare ...I swear, it's
a dream!! What kind of wizardry is this?! Today I was two hours late for work. I
turned the handle, opened the door, walked in and looked: the room was empty.
Pagina 56
The whole thing was shot through with longitudinal passageways, like an ant-hill,
so that it was possible to walk through the entire place from end to end without
coming out into the street. I walked along warm convolutions and from time to
time ...
The whole thing was shot through with longitudinal passageways, like an ant-hill,
so that it was possible to walk through the entire place from end to end without
coming out into the street. I walked along warm convolutions and from time to
time ...
Pagina 86
I walked away in order to avoid seeing a man being hanged, but fear walked with
me in my trembling legs. At the time, of course, there was nothing I could do, but
now I would boldly say, "General, you are an animal! How dare you hang ...
I walked away in order to avoid seeing a man being hanged, but fear walked with
me in my trembling legs. At the time, of course, there was nothing I could do, but
now I would boldly say, "General, you are an animal! How dare you hang ...
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Gebruikersrecensie - gbill - LibraryThingThese stories were all written before Bulgakov started work on his masterpiece “The Master and the Margarita”, but unlike the novel, were published at the time. It’s an interesting mix; Bulgakov is ... Volledige review lezen
Notes on the cuff & other stories
Gebruikersrecensie - Not Available - Book VerdictThis book translates several of Bulgakov's early short stories and feuilletons for the first time. They effectively present Bulgakov's personal struggle with the idiocies of Moscow's bureaucracy ... Volledige review lezen
Inhoudsopgave
Red Stone Moscow | 121 |
The Capital in a Notebook | 129 |
Moscow City of Churches | 155 |
Copyright | |
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