Diaboliad and Other Stories (Alma Classics) - Softcover

Mikhail Bulgakov

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847494722 ISBN 13: 9781847494726

Publisher: Alma Classics, 2015

Synopsis

In Bulgakov's 'Diaboliad', the modest and unassuming office clerk Korotkov is summarily sacked for a trifling error from his job at the First Central Depot for the Materials for Matches, and tries to seek out his newly assigned superior Kalsoner, responsible for his dismissal. His quest through the labyrinth of Soviet bureaucracy takes on the increasingly surreal dimensions of a nightmare. This early satirical story, reminiscent of Gogol and Dostoevsky, was first published in 1924 and incurred the wrath of pro-Soviet critics. Along with the three other stories in this volume which also feature explorations of the absurd and bizarre, it provides a fascinating glimpse into the artistic development of the author of 'Master and Margarita'.

Contains: Diaboliad, No.13 - The Elpit, Workers' Commune Building, A Chinese Tale, The Adventures of Chichikov

About this title

About the Author:

Mikhail Bulgakov (1891 - 1940) was born and educated in Kiev where he graduated as a doctor in 1916. He rapidly abandoned medicine to write some of the greatest Russian literature of this century. After a lifetime at odds with the stultifying Soviet regime, he died impoverished and blind in 1940, shortly after completing his masterpiece, The Master and Margarita. None of his major fiction was published during his lifetime.

Review:

"One of the greatest modern Russian writers, perhaps the greatest" * Independent * "A writer of fantastic genius" * Sunday Times * "Bulgakov is a wild, mobile, crafty devotee of ideas" * Guardian *

About this edition

• Publisher: Alma Classics
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1847494722
• ISBN 13: 9781847494726
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120