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Jules Feiffer
I first read Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita on a balcony of the Hotel Metropole in Saigon on three summer evenings in 1971. The tropical air was heavy and…
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Mikhail Bulgakov
Daniel Radcliffe. The devil with his retinue, a poet incarcerated in a mental institution for speaking the truth, and a startling re-creation of the story of Pontius Pilate, constitute the…
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Set in Moscow of the 1920’s, this satirical novel recounts the dealings a writer and his mistress have with Satan.
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In Soviet Moscow, God is dead, but the devil - to say nothing of his retinue of demons, from a loudmouthed, gun-toting tomcat, to the fanged fallen angel Koroviev -…
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This is Bulgakov’s semi-autobiographical story of a writer who fails to sell his novel and fails to commit suicide. When his play is taken up by the theatre, literary success…
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TRANSLATED BY MICHAEL GLENNY With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia which, in 1916-17, was still…
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY TERRY GILLIAM When Maxudov’s bid to take his own life fails, he dramatises the novel whose failure provoked the suicide attempt.
The five, irreverant, satirical and imaginative stories contained in Diaboliad caused an uproar upon the book’s first publication in 1925. Full of invention, they display Bulgakov’s breathtaking stylistic range, moving…
Drawing closely on Bulgakov’s personal experiences of the horrors of civil war as a young doctor, The White Guard takes place in Kiev, 1918, a time of turmoil and suffocating…
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ANDREY KURKOV A rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland…
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The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow accompanied by various demons, including a naked girl and a huge black cat. When he leaves, the asylums are full and the…
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