ミハイル・ブルガーコフ

『巨匠とマルガリータ』は、ミハイル・ブルガーコフが1929年から1940年にかけて執筆した長編小説で、ソ連当局によって体制批判として受け止められて生前出版が叶わず、出版されたのはブルガーコフの死後26年も経った1966年だった。それも全体の12％が変更や削除されたものだった。近年、ロシアでは舞台化やテレビ・ドラマ化もなされてその人気は再浮上している。「原稿は決して燃えない」という名台詞で有名。 …

A world-famous Moscow professor -- rich, successful, and violently envied by his neighbors -- befriends a stray dog and resolves to achieve a daring scientific "first" by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary grand of a dead man. But the results are wholly unexpected: a distinctly and worryingly human …

The White Guard is a novel by 20th-century Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov, famed for his critically acclaimed later work The Master and Margarita.

Brilliant stories that show the growth of a novelist's mind, and the raw material that fed the wild surrealism of Bulgakov's later fiction.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 largely unaffected by …