Manuscripts Don't Burn: Mikhail Bulgakov A Life in Letters and Diaries - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1468300709 ISBN 13: 9781468300703

Publisher: The Overlook Press, 2012

Synopsis

In Manuscripts Don't Burn the title a line from his famous novel, J.A. E. Curtis presents a gripping chronicle of Bulgakov's life, using as source material, among other documents, a partial copy of one of his diaries which was presumed lost and uncovered decades later in the KGB’s archives. That diary and those of his third wife record the nightmarish precariousness of life during the Stalinist purges. Also included are letters to Stalin, in which Bulgakov pleads to be allowed to emigrate; letters to his siblings; intimate notes to his second and third wives; and letters to and from other writers such as Gorky and Zamyatin.

About this title

About the Author:

J.A.E. Curtis is a lecturer in Russian Literature at Oxford, with a focus on the works of Mikhail Bulgakov and Evgeny Zamyatin as well as Russian drama. She is the author of Bulgakov’s Last Decade: The Writer as Hero.

Review:

"Superb... marvelously uncensored." — –The New York Times Book Review

"Bulgakov’s magic never fails the reader... some of the documents included are indeed astonishing... Bulgakov’s life is as fantastic and tortured as the plot of The Master and Margarita." — –The Washington Post Book World

About this edition

• Publisher: The Overlook Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1468300709
• ISBN 13: 9781468300703
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Curtis J.A.E.