| #5782774 in Books | 1992-07-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | File type: PDF | 320 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| an excellently published book|By anna koos|Manuscripts Don't Burn is an excellent selection of a very large material -- correspondence and diaries -- obviously well-written, but also well-translated, annotated, edited, and nicely published book, what a rarity these days -- it was a cathartic experience to ply through it --|From Publishers Weekly|Brilliant satirist of life under Stalin, Soviet novelist-playwright Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) struggled to make a career as a "conservative" writer in the 1920s and 1930s. His household was rife with informers and snoops, and though Sta
In his own lifetime, Russian novelist and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov was scarcely published. A quarter of a century after his death, his novel, "The Master and the Margarita", has become a worldwide bestseller. In this book, J.A.E. Curtis presents a chronicle of Bulgakov's life. She is the only Westerner to have been granted access to either his or his wife's diaries which record the nightmarish precariousness of life during the Stalinist purges. She combines this with ...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Manuscripts Don't Burn: Mikhail Bulgakov - A Life in Letters and Diaries | Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
