Bøger af Mikhail Bulgakov

"With cinematic vividness, Bulgakov puts us on the streets of a gracious, historic city as it is successively besieged by invading Germans, Ukrainian nationalists, the Red Guard of the Bolsheviks, and the White Guard loyal to the recently executed tsar. The Turbin siblings, once wealthy and secure in Russia, have fled to Kiev to escape the ongoing civil war, but find themselves surrounded by chaos and danger."--

Bogen betragtes som et af det tyvende århundredes satiriske hovedværker. Med tydelig adresse til det stalinistiske Sovjetunionen kunne den lille roman ikke publiceres før 1987. Satiren rækker dog langt videre. Bulgakovs roman tematiserer forunderligt universelt forholdet mellem skaberen og det skabte.En sulten gadekøter, Sharik, bliver en aften samlet op af den ansete transplantationslæge Preobrazhenskij, som bruger hunden til et videnskabeligt eksperiment. Transplantationen lykkes, hunden rejser sig, bjæffer sovjetiske slogans og lyder nu navnet Poligraf Poligrafovich. Ved romanens slutning har Poligrafovich skuffet sin skaber så meget, at skaberværket må gå om.Bulgakovs roman har overlevet kommunismen og fremstår i dag som en veloplagt kritik af moderniteten. Skal vi føle os ramt?Originaltitel: Sobatj'e serdtse

Klassiker om Ukraine og Rusland, revolution og borgerkrigDen Hvide Garde Roman om en borgerkrig foregår i Kiiev, Ukraines hovedstad, under den russiske revolution og borgerkrig. Det er Bulgakovs mesterværk, værket han aldrig nåede at se publiceret. Forbudt af censuren. Det er romanen over alle romaner om krig og politisk kaos.Da handlingen begynder, er Første Verdenskrig inde i sine sidste krampetrækninger, det er 1918, der har været revolution i Skt. Petersborg, Kiiev er tysk besat, familien Turbins medlemmer, de voksne børn – læger, officerer, medlemmer af Kiievs russisktalende borgerskab – et par af dem er netop hjemvendt fra fronten og verdenskrigens rædsler – de forventer allesammen, at vanvidet skal høre op, at Tsaren vil få magten igen og genindføre lov og orden og måske endda for første gang indføre demokratiske institutioner. Imens ligger der uden for byen adskillige hære og venter på at rykke ind og sætte sig på magten: bolsjevikkernes rødgardister, den kontrarevolutionære Hvide Garde, nationalistlederen Petljura og hans bevæbnede ukrainske bønderkarle, polakkernes rytterarméer og et par anarkisthære.Forfatteren lavede selv et teaterstykke ud af Den hvide garde i 1926, som fik titlen Familien Turbins dage. Det var Stalins yndlingsteaterstykke.Mikhail Bulgakov, 1891-1940, bliver i dag betragtet som en af det 20. århundredes allerstørste russiske forfattere. Mesteren og Margarita, udkommet posthumt i 1968, er genudgivet på dansk flere gange. Også oversættelser af hans kortere prosaværker En hunds hjerte og Skæbnesvangre æg. Bulgakov arbejdede under borgerkrigen som læge i den hvide hær.

Mikhail Bulgakov's brilliantly theatrical and highly personal adaptation of Cervantes classic novel is here translated for the first time into English by the renowned translators, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonksy (winner of two PEN/Book-Of-The-Month Translation Awards) and the playwright/director, Richard Nelson (Tony Award, Olivier Award). "Since you hear my voice, it means I'm still alive." [ACT ONE]"Where there's music, there's no evil." [ACT THREE]"He has deprived me of the most precious gift a man is endowed with-he has deprived me of my freedom!" [ACT FOUR] "For Bulgakov, theater was...a place full of naïve magic and mystery."Anatoly Smeliansky, Is Comrade Bulgakov Dead?

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-fire stoves, and the horizon flared ambiguously, perhaps from heat lightning, perhaps from bombs. Later each night, as was my custom, I would wander out into the steamy back alleys of the city, where no one ever seemed to sleep, and crouch in doorways with the people and listen to the stories of their culture and their ancestors and their ongoing lives. Bulgakov taught me to hear something in those stories that I had not yet clearly heard. One could call it, in terms that would soon thereafter gain wide currency, "magical realism". The deadpan mix of the fantastic and the realistic was at the heart of the Vietnamese mythos. It is at the heart of the present zeitgeist. And it was not invented by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, as wonderful as his One Hundred Years of Solitude is. Garcia Marquez's landmark work of magical realism was predated by nearly three decades by Bulgakov's brilliant masterpiece of a novel. That summer in Saigon a vodka-swilling, talking black cat, a coven of beautiful naked witches, Pontius Pilate, and a whole cast of benighted writers of Stalinist Moscow and Satan himself all took up permanent residence in my creative unconscious. Their presence, perhaps more than anything else from the realm of literature, has helped shape the work I am most proud of. I'm often asked for a list of favorite authors. Here is my advice. Read Bulgakov. Look around you at the new century. He will show you things you need to see.

The devil, disguised as a magician, descends upon Moscow in the 1930s with his riotous band, which includes a talking cat and an expert assassin. Together they succeed in comically befuddling a population which denies the devil's existence, even as it is confronted with the diabolic results of a magic act gone wrong. This visit to the capital of world atheism has several aims, one of which concerns the fate of the Master, a writer who has written a novel about Pontius Pilate, and is now in a mental hospital. Margarita, the despairing and daring heroine, becomes a witch in an effort to save the Master, and agrees to become the devil's hostess at his annual spring ball. By turns acidly satiric, fantastic, and ironically philosophical, this work constantly surprises and entertains, as the action switches back and forth between the Moscow of the 1930s and first-century Jerusalem.

White Guard, Mikhail Bulgakovs semi-autobiographical first novel, is the story of the Turbin family in Kiev in 1918. Alexei, Elena, and Nikolka Turbin have just lost their mothertheir father had died years beforeand find themselves plunged into the chaotic civil war that erupted in the Ukraine in the wake of the Russian Revolution. In the context of this familys personal loss and the social turmoil surrounding them, Bulgakov creates a brilliant picture of the existential crises brought about by the revolution and the loss of social, moral, and political certainties. He confronts the reader with the bewildering cruelty that ripped Russian life apart at the beginning of the last century as well as with the extraordinary ways in which the Turbins preserved their humanity.In this volume Marian Schwartz, a leading translator, offers the first complete and accurate translation of the definitive original text of Bulgakovs novel. She includes the famous dream sequence, omitted in previous translations, and beautifully solves the stylistic issues raised by Bulgakovs ornamental prose. Readers with an interest in Russian literature, culture, or history will welcome this superb translation of Bulgakovs important early work.This edition also contains an informative historical essay by Evgeny Dobrenko.

See? All we need is... a map and...some kind of plan.This overcoat is neutral darling, neither Bolshevik nor Menshevik. Just essence of Prole. In Kiev during the Russian Civil War, the Turbin household is sanctuary to a ragtag, close-knit crowd presided over by the beautiful Lena. As her brothers prepare to fight for the White Guard, friends charge in from the riotous streets amidst an atmosphere of heady chaos, quaffing vodka, keeling over, declaiming, taking baths, playing guitar, falling in love. But the new regime is poised and in its brutal triumph lies destruction for the Turbins and their world. And those are the real enemies we face, deep in the shadows. This modern man with no name, no past, no love. This desperate hate-filled man born of loneliness and frustration. This man with nothing to be proud of, nothing he is part of. . .

New translations of two poignant and controversial plays by Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov.

Charts the life of the French playwright - Moliere - from humble beginnings to later theatrical triumphs and political controversies.

From the author of MASTER AND MARGARITA, BLACK SNOW and DIABOLIAD, a novel which features a Moscow professor who befriends a stray dog and transplants into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a dead man, unleashing a human dog which turns the professor's life into a nightmare beyond endurance.

Set in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev during the chaotic winter of 1918-19, The White Guard, Bulgakov's first full-length novel, tells the story of a Russian-speaking family trapped in circumstances that threaten to destroy them.

This selection from the diaries and letters of the Bulgakovs, mostly translated for the first time into English, provides an insightful glimpse into a fascinating period of Russian history and literature, telling the tragic tale of the fate of an artist under a totalitarian regime.

Featuring explorations of the absurd and bizarre, this title, here presented in a new translation, provides a glimpse into the artistic development of the author of "Master and Margarita".

Unpublished in Bulgakov's own lifetime, Black Snow (also known as A Theatrical Novel) - here presented in a new translation - is peppered with darkly comic set pieces and draws on its author's own bitter experience as a playwright with the Moscow Arts Theatre, showcasing his inimitable gift for shrewd observation and razor-sharp satire.

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 at dizzying speed from grotesque satire to science fiction, from the plainest realism to the most madcap fantasy.

A bold new adaptation of Bulgakov's epic satire by renowned author Ron Hutchinson.

Features a wealthy Moscow surgeon Filip Preobrazhensky who implants the pituitary gland and testicles of a drunken petty criminal into the body of a stray dog. As the dog slowly transforms into a man, and man into a slovenly, lecherous government official, the doctor's life descends into chaos.

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 beckons, but he has reckoned without the grotesquely inflated egos of the actors, directors and theatre managers.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY TERRY GILLIAMWhen Maxudov's bid to take his own life fails, he dramatises the novel whose failure provoked the suicide attempt.

A collection of 6 plays from Mikhail Bulgakov, considered by many to be among the foremost Russian playwrights of the first post-revolutionary generation. The plays featured in this collection include "The White Guard", based on his expereinces as a White defending Kiev against the Bolsheviks.

The Master and Margarita is a captivating novel penned by the renowned author, Mikhail Bulgakov. This literary masterpiece, first published by Everyman in 1992, continues to grip readers with its intriguing narrative. The novel delves into the genre of magical realism, offering a unique blend of fantasy and reality that keeps readers on the edge of their seats. The Master and Margarita is not just a book; it's an exploration of human nature and societal norms, presented through the lens of Bulgakov's brilliant storytelling. The book's publication by Everyman has ensured its widespread availability and enduring popularity. If you're a fan of thought-provoking literature, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov is a must-read.