Bulgakov's Last Decade

The Writer as Hero
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-521-10652-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 377 g

Reihe: British Mycological Society Symposia

Published in 1987, this book was the first full-length interpretative study in English of the later writings of the outstanding Soviet novelist and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940). The focus is the 1930s, the period when Bulgakov was writing The Master and Margarita, an extraordinary novel that has had a profound impact in the Soviet Union and which is now generally regarded as his masterpiece. Using material from Soviet archives and libraries, Dr Curtis suggests that Bulgakov's fundamental preoccupation in this movel with the destiny of literature and of the writer is reflected in other major works of the same period, in particular his writings on Pushkin and Molière. Bulgakov emerges as a belated romantic, a figure unique on the early Soviet literacy scene.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Curtis, J. A. E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; Notes; 1. The tempering of the steel; 2. Bulgakov and Molière; 3. Pushkin and Gogol - Bulgakov's Russian masters: 4. The Master and Margarita - Manuscripts don't burn; 5. A Romantic vision; Notes; Bibliography; Index.