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 63
Ten minutes before going to the cash register, the woman on the first floor, who
was supposed to give the final stamp, said: "It's not done properly. You will have
to keep the requisition." I don't remember exactly what happened. A fog. It seems
I ...
Ten minutes before going to the cash register, the woman on the first floor, who
was supposed to give the final stamp, said: "It's not done properly. You will have
to keep the requisition." I don't remember exactly what happened. A fog. It seems
I ...
Pagina 145
Scene: A woman, lifting her blue skirt, slips down from an incline on which both
men and women are sitting. A woman is cleaning a man's behind with a clothes
brush. A woman is riding on a man's shoulders, modestly covering her legs with ...
Scene: A woman, lifting her blue skirt, slips down from an incline on which both
men and women are sitting. A woman is cleaning a man's behind with a clothes
brush. A woman is riding on a man's shoulders, modestly covering her legs with ...
Pagina 153
The old woman began rushing around inside the newsstand. She gave me
another one. That's not it. "What's the matter with you, are you illiterate?" (I asked
this facetiously.) But down with facetiousness, long live despair. The old woman
was ...
The old woman began rushing around inside the newsstand. She gave me
another one. That's not it. "What's the matter with you, are you illiterate?" (I asked
this facetiously.) But down with facetiousness, long live despair. The old woman
was ...
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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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