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The Master and Margarita: 2 338 reviews
Mikhail Bulgakov
Signet, 1967
A extraordinary novel
There is little I can add to the many excellent reviews of this unique novel; it repays re-reading and study.
Professor Kevin Moss at Middlebury College maintains an excellent site dedicated to this novel. There are illustrations from various editions, maps of places and a guide to the characters. Professor Moss describes the site:
"These Master & Margarita pages are intended as a ...
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A Country Doctor's Notebook3 reviews
Mikhail Bulgakov
Harvill Pr, 1995
Bulgakov the genius does it again
This is Bulgakov's own personal journey as a doctor recently graduated and sent to the countryside to practice. This is something that is still common in a number of developing countries and is used both to even up the social balance of city and country and also to provide medical care to those who otherwise would have to do without.
Bulgakov is dispatched and displays all the idealism of a ...
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Flight and Bliss 1 review
Mikhail Bulgakov
New Directions, 1985
Great drama works
Bulgakov is beloved for his novel "Master and Margarita", a surreal working of the Faust legend set in Stalinist Russia. These two plays "Flight" and "Bliss" show Bulgakov's real forte--drama. He authored plays (not published in his lifetime) and worked as a stage director (an assistant director, all he was allowed by the Soviet government, who knew him for an independent thinker.) Both plays are ...
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A Dead Man's Memoir: A Theatrical Novel (Penguin Classics)1 review
Mikhail Bulgakov
Penguin Classics, 2007
Bulgakov at his best
This is such a great book that someone such as myself that had no interest in the theater or plays could not put it down. That is because this book is less about theater and more about people and living under oppression. Here is a biography of sorts on how a great work of writing can be buried under the weight of large egos, jealousy, and the soveit system. Yet this book dose not exclusivly ...
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Zoyka's Apartment: A Tragic Farce in Three Acts (Great Translations for Actors Series)1 review
Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov, Frank Dwyer
Smith & Kraus, 1996
Zoyka's Apartment
As an actor, I fell completely in love with Zoyka's Apartment. Bulgakov has an amazing capacity for imagery. The characters are vivid and enthralling. His sense of comedy remains unsurpassed by the writers of today. I highly recommend this hysterically ludicrous play to any fan of Bulgakov. You may also enjoy reading anything by Kurt Vonnegut, his work runs along the same lines as Bulgakov's.
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Heart of a Dog47 reviews
Mikhail Bulgakov
Grove Press, 1994
Hilarious, sarcastic look at Soviet life
Written in 1925, Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog is an absolutely hilarious and wonderfully sarcastic look at Soviet life, directly after the revolution.
The plot focuses on genius professor Preobrazhensky, who transplants the pituitary gland from a minor criminal into a stray dog named Sharik (little ball, in Russian). Gradually, the dog turns into a disgusting, crass little man and terrorizes the ...
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Diaboliad2 reviews
Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov
HarperCollins Publishers, 1997
Heart of a Dog
"My goodness, what are you saying," Korotkov exclaimed in distress, sensing that here, too something strange was starting, just as it had everywhere else. He looked back as if he were being hunted, afraid that the shaven face and the bald shell would emerge from somewhere, and ...
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Manuscripts Don't Burn2 reviews
Mikhail Bulgakov
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1991
Essential reading if you admire Bulgakov's work
Since I can't read Russian, I have to read Bulgakov's marvelous plays and novels ("Heart of a Dog", "The Master and Margarita", "Bliss") in translation. Nor did I experience, first-hand, the horrors of the Stalin purges. I love the work of Bulgakov--he's a master of satire and imagination. This biography in letters and notes is really essential for the non-Russian reader to get a sense of his ...
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The Life of Monsieur De Moliere2 reviews
Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov
New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1986
A very pro Moliere book that is a pleasure to read.
Mikhail Bulgakov's book The Life of Monsieur de Moliere is a very biased book that is uncritical of the great French writer Moliere. Despite the author's unabashed love of Moliere, the book is a treat from beginning to end. Bulgakov feels an affinity with Moliere because he wrote under a totalitarian regime headed by Stalin in Russia and Moliere wrote during the reign of Louis XIV. Although ...
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The White Guard15 reviews
Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov
Academy Chicago Publishers, 1995
moving tale by a master of tales
bulgakov may have written master and margarita and black snow, both bizarre quirky novels, but white guard is undoubtedly the most human.
moving and touching it pulls at the heartstrings with its complexities of family relations and social environment.
beautiful
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Fatal Eggs (Hesperus Classics) 3 reviews
Mikhail Bulgakov
Hesperus Press, 2003
Genius
Bulgakov is wonderful. This story is a charming expression of Bulgakov's sentiments of Soviet Russia. I am constantly amazed that Bulgakov managed to escape the Culling that was suffered by so many of Russia's intellectuals.
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The Black Snow8 reviews
Mikhail Bulgakov
Oberon Books, 1991
Some clarification
Translation of the name of the book is chosen badly. It is 'Teatral'nyi roman' - not 'Black Snow'! The latter is the name of the novel which gets written by the narrator and plays an auxiliary role in the story (it is of course a paraphrase on the 'White Guard' - the image of a man running on the snow away from the horsemen is from there). In part, the subject of 'Teatral'nyi roman' is theatre - ...
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Theatre Stories 1 review
Mikhail Bulgakov
Koch, Neff & Oetinger & Co, 1998
If only he'd finished it!
Firstly I read this work in Russian so I don't know about this translation.
Secondly this novel is unfinished: Bulgakov died when he was writing it and it ends mid-sentence, perhaps just over the halfway point. Hence the 3 stars because there's no point awarding stars for something that hasn't actually been achieved. But had he finished it I'm pretty sure it would be a 5 all the way!
This ...
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Belaia gvardiia. (Audio book in Russian, Mp3)
Bulgakov Mikhail.
Ardis, 2004
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Beg (In Russian Language) /
Mikhail Bulgakov,
AST, 2004
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