by Mikhail Bulgakov (Author), Michael Glenny (Translator), Michael Glenny (Translator), Mikhail Bulgakov (Author)
This title is translated by Michael Glenny. With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia which, in 1916-17, was still largely unaffected by such novelties as the motor car, the telephone or electric light. How his alter-ego copes (or fails to cope) with the new and often appalling responsibilities of a lone doctor in a vast country practice - on the eve of Revolution - is described in Bulgakov's delightful blend of candid realism and imaginative exuberance.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 07 Jan 2010
ISBN 10: 0099529564
ISBN 13: 9780099529569
Book Overview: Brilliant stories which show the growth of a novelist's mind, and the raw material which fed the wild surrealism of Bulgakov's later fiction