A Country Doctor's Notebook - Couverture souple

Bulgakov, Mikhail Afanasevich

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0002710641 ISBN 13 : 9780002710640

Editeur : The Harvill Press, 1990

Synopsis

A collection of nine stories based on the author's experiences as a young doctor with a practice in the depths of a primitive and remote rural Russia, 1000 miles from a lecture room and 30 miles from a railway station. He has also written "The Master and Margarita" and "The White Guard".

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Mikhail Bulgakov (1891 - 1940) was born and educated in Kiev where he graduated as a doctor in 1916, but gave up the practice of medicine in 1920 to devote himself to literature. In 1925 he completed the satirical novella The Heart of a Dog, which remained unpublished in the Soviet Union until 1987. This was one of the many defeats he was to suffer at the hands of his censors. By 1930 Bulgakov had become so frustrated by the political atmosphere and the suppression of his works that he wrote to Stalin begging to be allowed to emigrate if he was not to be given the opportunity to make his living as a writer in the USSR. Stalin telephoned him personally and offered to arrange a job for him at the Moscow Arts Theatre instead. In 1938, a year before contracting a fatal illness, he completed his prose masterpiece, The Master and Margarita. He died in 1940. In 1966-7, thanks to the persistance of his widow, the novel made a first, incomplete, appearance in Moskva, and in 1973 appeared in full.

Revue de presse

"Stories as keen and bright as a scalpel... Courage shines from every angle of this profoundly human collection by the greatest of modern Russian writers" (Sunday Times)

"A marvellous writer" (Michael Frayn)

"The oil lamps of his little provincial hospital seemed to him a lonely beacon which symbolised the battle between light and darkness... These straighforward yet extraordinary sketches gain their strength from also being the account of a young man's growth. One begins to see that he became a novelist not because he had material but because he was storing up passion and temperament" (V.S. Pritchett New Statesman)

"Wryly funny and fascinating" (Sunday Times)

"Blizzards blow, wolves run loose in the forests, the doctor duels with Death, who is never satisfied" (Harpers & Queen)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Harvill Press
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0002710641
• ISBN 13: 9780002710640
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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