New Releases by Mikhail Bulgakov

Using a sharply realistic and humorous style, Bulgakov reveals his doubts about his own competence and the immense burden of responsibility, as he deals with a superstitious and poorly educated people struggling to enter the modern age. This acclaimed collection represents some of Bulgakov''s most personal and insightful observations on youth, isolation and progress.

in Bulgakov''s allegorical masterpiece of Stalin’s regime the devil is making a personal appearance in Moscow. He is accompanied by various demons, including a naked girl and a huge black cat. When he leaves, the asylums are full and the forces of law and order are in disarray. Only the Master, a writer and a man devoted to truth, and Margarita, the woman he loves, can resist the devil’s onslaught. ‘Stunning, superb...Bulgakov is one of the greatest Russian writers, perhaps the greatest’ Independent ‘A masterpiece – a classic of twentieth-century fiction’ New York Times TRANSLATED BY MICHAEL GLENNY, INTRODUCED BY WILL SELF

O mestre e Margarida é um romance revolucionário. É uma obra com um estilo absolutamente original, sobre a liberdade da escrita e a força do amor em tempos adversos. É também uma sátira devastadora da vida sob o regime soviético, da censura e da repressão. Um dos livros mais importantes e cultuados do século XX. Em uma tarde de primavera, Satanás e seu séquito diabólico decidem visitar Moscou. Encontram poetas, editores, burocratas e todo tipo de pessoas tentando levar a vida em pleno regime comunista. Depois dessa visita, nada será como antes; o rastro de destruição e loucura mudará o destino de quem cruzar seu caminho. Da mesma forma, a publicação de O mestre e Margarida pela revista soviética Moskva, entre novembro de 1966 e janeiro de 1967, mudou para sempre os rumos da literatura russa. Mikhail Bulgakov havia morrido 26 anos antes. Era conhecido por suas peças teatrais de sucesso — polêmicas por sua visão crítica do regime —, além de contos, novelas e um romance . Quase ninguém suspeitava que, entre seu material inédito, estava sua obra máxima. Bulgakov levou cerca de dez anos para terminá-la, sabendo dos problemas que teria com a censura — chegou, inclusive, a queimar uma versão inicial. Apenas seu círculo mais íntimo de conhecidos sabia da existência do romance e, também, da impossibilidade de lançá-lo durante o regime stalinista. Apesar disso, o livro sobreviveu por mais de duas décadas e tornou-se um fenômeno. Acabou, assim, por confirmar uma frase dita na história pelo próprio diabo, e que na Rússia se tornou proverbial: "Manuscritos não ardem". "Bulgakov é um dos maiores escritores russos modernos, talvez o maior." — The Independent "Uma obra-prima, um clássico da ficção no século XX." — The New York Times

Disappearances, destruction and death spread throughout Moscow like wildfire, and Margarita has discovered that her lover has vanished in the chaos. Making a bargain with the devil, she decides to try a little black magic of her own to save the man she loves.

Dette er forfatterens hovedverk, som han såvidt rakk å fullføre før sin død i 1940. Mens han skrev det, var han utestengt fra Sovjetunionens offentlige liv og opplevde mye motgang. Det er et verk som formmessig sprenger alle rammer, det er båd en krimroman, historisk roman, metafysisk roman, dannelsesroman, satire og epos. Den inneholder minst to ulike historier: den ene utspiller seg i Stalins Moskva, den andre i Jerusalem, der en prokurator får sjelefreden forstyrret når en underlig fange føres frem for ham. Handlingen i Moskva nesten 2000 år senere har en fantastisk form, hendelsen i Jerusalemskildres med streng realisme. Omtalen er utarbeidet av BS.

A selection of humorous and satirical novels and short stories by the great Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov, whose fine style of writing and sense of humor and irony are ultimately shining in this collection, including "The unusual adventures of the doctor", "The red crown", "The adventures of Chichikov", "Forty fortieth", "Moscow in the 20''s", "Hunters after the skulls", "The adventure of the dead", "Three kopecks", "Game of nature", "Exchange of substances", "About the benefit of alcoholism", "Water of life", "The champion of the world", and "The English pins."

Bulgakov and Mandelstam never met and yet their lives had much in common. Both men were born in the same year, 1891, and both lives ended prematurely, crushed by the cruel totalitarian system. Mandelstam died in a Siberian gulag in December 1938, and Bulgakov 14 months later, in March 1940, from a terminal illness, probably brought on by unbearable stress and disillusionment.Despite their obvious genius both were largely unappreciated and unrecognized except by a handful of close friend who gave them encouragement and moral support. Both had unusually close relationships with their wives who inspired their work during their lifetime and enthusiastically promoted it after their deaths. If it were not for the wives'' courageous efforts against all odds, world literature would have lost Mandelstam''s luminous poetry and Bulgakov''s superb magic realism forever.

Contains extensive selections from Bulgakov''s correspondence and diary, and from the diary of his wife Elena Sergeevna Bulgakova, translated from the Russian.

Affiliation, and the Byzantine Moscow bureaucracy. This stylistically brilliant work was only partially published during Bulgakov''s lifetime due to censorship, but was immediately recognized by the literati as an important work. The other stories collected here range from a sequence about the Civil War to Bulgakov''s early reportage on the rebuilding of Moscow in the early 1920s, stories which now have a strikingly contemporary ring. Bulgakov describes the swindlers who.

Reissued to tie-in with a new production of Flight at the Royal National Theatre, this volume contains six plays by Mikhail Bulgakov, a Soviet playwright whose work often brought him into conflict with the Soviet authorities.