Bulgakov: 60 books

QUESTO LIBRO È A LAYOUT FISSO In questo straordinario racconto satirico, ambientato nella Russia sovietica degli anni Venti, si narrano le bizzarre vicende di Pallino, un cane randagio che, salvato dalla strada e curato dall’eccentrico dottor Filip Filippovic, scopre ciò che si cela dietro...

Questi due romanzi brevi di Bulgakov hanno in comune l’invenzione fantascientifica e la verve satirica. In Uova fatali uno zoologo casualmente produce un «raggio rosso» capace di indurre una rapida e abnorme crescita delle cellule; in Cuore di cane un celebre chirurgo trapianta l’ipofisi e altri...

His widow had The White Guard published in large part in the literary journal Moskva in 1966, at the end of the Khrushchev era. This was the basis for the English translation by Michael Glenny. This lacks the dream flashback sections. Set in Russia, beginning in late 1918, the novel concerns...

See? All we need is... a map and...some kind of plan. This overcoat is neutral darling, neither Bolshevik nor Menshevik. Just essence of Prole. In Kiev during the Russian Civil War, the Turbin household is sanctuary to a ragtag, close-knit crowd presided over by the beautiful Lena. As...

From the author of The Master and Margarita comes this short and tragic masterpiece about drug addiction Young Dr. Bromgard has come to a small country town to assume a new practice. No sooner has he arrived than he receives word that a colleague, Dr. Polyakov, has fallen gravely ill. Before...

Moscow, 1924. While foraging for trash one winter day, a stray dog is found by a cook and scalded with boiling water. Lying forlorn in a doorway, the dog awaits his end awash in self-pity. To his surprise, a successful surgeon, Filip Filippovich Preobrazhensky (whose name is derived from 'transformation'...

A mysterious stranger appears in a Moscow park. Soon he and his retinue have astonished the locals with the magic show to end all magic shows. But why are they really here, and what has it got todo with the beautiful Margarita, or her lover, the Master, a silenced writer? A carnival for the senses...

The story features a talking cat and the visit of the Devil to the atheistic Soviet Union. The second part of the novel takes place in Pontius Pilate's Jerusalem. This acclaimed translation also includes notes on the text.

Rokovye jajca. Zapiski junogo vracha. Роковые яйца. Записки юного врача. Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков (1891–1940) – великий русский писатель и драматург, автор повестей, рассказов,...

Il Maestro e Margherita è un miracolo che ognuno deve salutare con commozione. Eugenio Montale

Those who live in the midst of a Revolution often do not perceive the tidal wave of historical forces sweeping by them. Nonetheless, they are acutely conscious of being caught up in a whirlwind. Nikolka, Alexi,and Elena Turbin are members of a middle-class family in Kiev. The time is 1918 and the...

"Vazifelerine karşı mazur görülemeyecek ilgisiz hal ve tavırları sonucu kurumun resmi evraklarında hayatî sayılabilecek karışıklıklara neden olmasından ve ayrıca işyerine adeta bir kavgadan çıkmış gibi suratı berbat bir halde gelmesinden dolayı, Yoldaş Korotkov, ayın 25'inin...

Köpek Kalbi, hem Rusya'da hem de Batı'da geçen yüzyılın sakıncalı kitaplarından. 1925'te yazılan, ülkesinde ancak 1987'de yayımlanabilen bu roman, 1917 Rus Devrimi'nin toplumsal sonuçlarına odaklanmış. Yer yer Frankenstein'ı andıran, gerçeküstü atmosferiyle kendisini bir distopyanın...

A collection of essays first published in Moscow in 1909. Writing from various points of view, the authors reflect the diverse experiences of Russia's failed 1905 revolution. Condemned by Lenin and rediscoverd by dissidents, this translation has relevance for discussions on contemporary Russia.