When Soviet censors approved Mikhail Bulgakov's stage adaptation of Don Quixote, they were unaware that they were sanctioning a subtle but powerful criticism of Stalinist rule. The author whose novel The Master and Margarita would eventually bring him world renown achieved this sleight of hand throu[...]

A new edition of Bulgakov's blistering satire about the great Russian director Stanislavski, inventor of "Method acting," part of Melville House's reissue of the Bulgakov backlist in Michael Glenny's celebrated translations.
In 1926, a play based on Mikhail Bulgakov's novel "The White Guard" pre[...]

Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) has become the most popular Russian writer of the twentieth century, even though his works were banned for decades after his death due to the repressive Soviet censorship of literature. His great novel, The Master and Margarita (published only in 1973), was written in co[...]

Through his surreal, often grotesque humour, Bulgakov creates in this book - a new translation of one of the most popular satires on the Russian Revolution and on Soviet society - an ingenious new twist to the 'Frankenstein' parable. Having been scalded by boiling water earlier that day, and with li[...]

In Bulgakov's "Diaboliad", the modest and unassuming office clerk Korotkov is summarily sacked for a trifling error from his job at the First Central Depot for the Materials for Matches, and tries to seek out his newly assigned superior Kalsoner, responsible for his dismissal. His quest through the [...]

Set in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev during the chaotic winter of 1918 - 19, The White Guard, Bulgakov's first full-length novel, tells the story of a Russian-speaking family trapped in circumstances that threaten to destroy them. As in Tolstoy's War and Peace, the narrative centres on the stark con[...]

The career of Mikhail Bulgakov, the author of Master and Margarita - now regarded as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century literature - was characterized by a constant and largely unsuccessful struggle against state censorship. This suppression did not only apply to his art: in 1926 his p[...]

Professor Persikov, an eccentric zoologist, stumbles upon a new light ray that accelerates growth and reproduction rates in living organisms. In the wake of a plague that has decimated the country's poultry stocks, Persikov's discovery is exploited as a means to correct the problem. As foreign agent[...]

"Master i Margarita", roman-zagadka, kniga, vykhodjaschaja za ramki svoego vremeni, zastavljajuschaja vozvraschatsja k sebe vnov i vnov. Vechnoe protivoborstvo sil dobra i zla, sveta i tmy predstavleno na etikh stranitsakh v manere, tak otlichajuschej Bulgakova ot svoikh sovremennikov. Filosofskaja [...]

Kakim byl chelovek, sozdavshij samyj zagadochnyj i chuvstvennyj roman v russkoj literature? U Bulgakova bylo tri zheny, dva razvoda i odna strast. Predannaja Lappa, ekstravagantnaja Belozerskaja i otchajannaja Shilovskaja - kotoraja zhe iz nikh byla toj, edinstvennoj? Ego biografija mogla by pokhodi[...]

S rasskazov, vyshedshikh pod obschim nazvaniem "Zapiski junogo vracha", nachalas jarkaja pisatelskaja biografija M.A.Bulgakova, buduschego avtora znamenitogo romana "Master i Margarita".V nastojaschij sbornik vkljuchena takzhe vo mnogom avtobiografichnaja povest "Morfij" i ne poterjavshij svoej aktu[...]