Satan, Judas, a Soviet writer, and a talking black cat named Behemoth populate this satire, “a classic of twentieth-century fiction” (The New York Times). In 1930s Moscow, Satan decides to pay the good people of the Soviet Union ...
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 full of the smells of cordite and motorcycle exhaust and rotting fish and wood-fir...
Neither of the plays in this volume, 'Flight' (1926-28) and 'Bliss' (1934) was published until long after the author's death. By 1929, his persistent refusal to conform to the demands of the Communist government and critics has led to a ban on all hi...
In this collection of early fiction and reportage written during the 1920s, the title story is a comical, autobiographical account of surviving hunger, typhus, civil war and bureaucracy to become a writer. Translated by Alison Rice, with an introduct...
Zoyka's Apartment captures the exotic image and the real heartbeat of an amazing city at a fascinating moment: Moscow in the Soviet equivalent of the roaring 20's, in a pause between the cyclone of the revolution and the inferno of the purges, a wind...
A comic novel about the theater world in early Soviet Russia and a “biting attack on censorship” (The Guardian, UK). From the author of The Master and Margarita, this semi-autobiographical satirical novel paints a vibrant portrait of life ...
The chickens come home to roost in this “brilliantly strange” blend of science fiction and political satire by the author of The Master and Margarita (The Guardian, UK). As the new reality of post-Revolution Soviet life begins to settle in...
A new translation of one of the most popular satires on the Russian Revolution and Soviet society
Best known for The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov is one of twentieth-century Russia's most prominent novelists. A Dead Man's Memoir is...
A Kyiv family is caught up in the Ukrainian War of Independence in this novel by the author of The Master and Margarita, drawing from his own life. Reds, Whites, German troops, and Ukrainian nationalists battle for control of the city of Kyiv ...
Part autobiography, part fiction, this early work by the author of The Master and Margarita shows a master at the dawn of his craft, and a nation divided by centuries of unequal progress.In 1916 a 25-year-old, newly qualified doctor named M...
A dark, fantastical satire of Communist utopianism by the author of The Master and Margarita. Lauded Russian author and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov’s A Dog’s Heart (sometimes translated as The Heart of a Dog) is a zany, violent, and whimsi...
The first English translation and only edition in print of Bulgakov's diaries and letters
The career of Mikhail Bulgakov, the author of Master and Margarita -- now regarded as one of the masterpieces of 20th-century literature -- was ...
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 hi...
Begun in 1920 while Bulgakov was employed in a hospital in the remote Caucasian outpost of Vladikavkaz, and continued when he started working for a government literary department in Moscow, Notes on a Cuff is a series of journalistic sketches which s...
This volume of personal writings offers an intimate view of the celebrated Russian author’s life and creative process in the face of Soviet censorship. Best known for his biting satire of Soviet society, The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulga...
Darkly humorous short fiction set in the early years of the Soviet Union, by the author of The Master and Margarita. A collection of comic, self-aware, and stylistically dazzling short stories touching on such familiar territory for many Russi...
From the author of The Master and Margarita, these semiautobiographical stories chronicle the darkly comic adventures of a physician in rural 1917 Russia. Fresh from medical school in the winter of 1917, the young Dr. Bomgard assumes the role ...
V pervoy redaktsii roman imel varianty nazvaniy: «Chernyy mag», «Kopyto inzhenera», «Zhongler s kopytom», «Syn Veliara», «Gastrol' Volanda». Pervaya redaktsiya byla unichtozhena avtorom 18 marta 1930 g., posle polucheniya izvestiya o zapret...