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La novela más mordaz y divertida escrita sobre la revolución bolchevique y el régimen al que dio paso. Un verdadero «clásico».

The five, irreverant, satirical and imaginative stories contained in Diaboliad caused an uproar upon the books first publication in 1925. Full of invention, they display Bulgakovs breathtaking stylistic range, moving at dizzying speed from grotesque satire to science fiction, from the plainest realism to the most madcap fantasy.

Tiene el lector en sus manos una prábola cómica inspirada en La guerra de los mundos de wells, a la vez que una asombrosa profecía de Jurassic Park aparecida en la Rusia revolucionaria. Con una extraordinari imaginacion y un increible sentido del humor, Bulgakov compuso esta novela de obvia intencion satirica, en la tradicion del mejor Gogol, que resulta todavia mas audaz si se piensa en los tiempos en que fue escrita.

Un científico huraño y con prácticas poco habituales realiza un descubrimiento científico que acaba fuera de control cuando las autoridades se entrometen y deciden utilizarlo para otros fines cuando la tecnologia aun no esta bajo control. En Los huevos fatidicos nos encontramos con una nueva satira de Mijail Bulgakov que le costo la censura sovietica, pero que nunca le impidio manifestar su vision critica a traves de un humor inteligente.

Set in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev during the chaotic winter of 1918-19, The White Guard, Bulgakovs first full-length novel, tells the story of a Russian-speaking family trapped in circumstances that threaten to destroy them. As in Tolstoys War and Peace, the narrative centres on the stark contrast between the cosy domesticity of family life on the one hand, and wide-ranging and destructive historical events on the other.The result is a disturbing, often shocking story, illuminated, however, by shafts of light that testify to peoples resilience, humanity and ability to love in even the most adverse circumstances.

The career of Mikhail Bulgakov, the author of Master and Margarita - now regarded as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century literature - was characterized by a constant and largely unsuccessful struggle against state censorship. This suppression did not only apply to his art: in 1926 his personal diary was seized by the authorities. From then on he confined his thoughts to letters to his friends and family, as well as to public figures such as Stalin and his fellow Soviet writer Gorky, while also encouraging his wife Yelena to keep a diary, with many entries influenced or even dictated by him.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.

As a mysterious gentleman and self-proclaimed magician arrives in Moscow, followed by a most bizarre retinue of servants - which includes a strangely dressed ex-choirmaster, a fanged hitman and a mischievous tomcat with the gift of the gab - the Russian literary world is shaken to its foundations. It soon becomes clear that he is the Devil, and that he has come to wreak havoc among the cultural elite of the disbelieving capital. But the Devil's mission quickly becomes entangled with the fate of the Master - the author of an unpublished historical novel about Pontius Pilate - who has turned his back on real life and his lover Margarita, finding shelter in a lunatic asylum after traumatic publishers' rejections, vilification in the press and political persecution. Will the Devil manage to enlist the fiery Margarita into his ranks, will she remain faithful to the Master to the very end and come to his rescue? At the same time, a satirical romp and a daring analysis of the nature of good and evil, innocence and guilt, "The Master and Margarita" is the crowning achievement of one of the greatest Russian writers of the twentieth century. This new translation by Hugh Aplin is based on the recently restored, unexpurgated edition, which benefits from over three decades of Bulgakov scholarship.

Una colección de relatos basados en las experiencias de Bulgákov cuando ejercía como médico. En vida de Mijaíl Bulgákov difícilmente alguien se habría atrevido a considerarlo un «clásico» de la liter

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