Mikhail Bulgákov (1891-1940) foi um dos grandes escritores satíricos do século XX e, como tal, poderia facilmente ter sido incluído no rol dos exilados ou mortos pelo ditador Josef Stálin — uma vez q
La guardia blanca es un vasto friso de toda una época de la historia rusa. A tra´ves del devenir de una familia burguesa, los Turbin, conocemos los trágicos acontecimientos que vivirá la ciudad de Ki
In Manuscripts Dont Burn the title a line from his famous novel, J.A. E. Curtis presents a gripping chronicle of Bulgakovs 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 KGBs 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.
A rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a recently deceased man A distinctly worryingly human animal is now on the loose, and the professor's hitherto respectable life becomes a nightmare beyond endurance...
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.
Un científico convierte a su perro en un nombre. Pronto descubrirá que era mucho mejor el animal que éste personaje rastrero que acabará por convertirse en informador...Una crítica social inteligente
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.
Los autores describen y analizan con humor e ironía, en un lenguaje agudo, la vida cotidiana en la nueva sociedad soviética, desvelando la grotesca realidad tras la normalidad aparente. Frente a los escritores proletarios, estos autores ofrecen la otra corriente de la literatura soviética que, innovadora y continuadora a la vez, forma parte de la mejor tradición de los grandes escritores rusos.
Romanzo satirico che racconta la storia della trasformazione chirurgica di un cane in uomo. Un cane parlante in agonia scruta e giudica lumanita, fino a che un professore di medicina di fama mondiale lo salva prendendolo con se. Un giorno, pero, il padrone decide, insieme al suo assistente, di trapiantare allanimale i testicoli e lipofisi di un uomo morto. Da questo momento si assiste al fatidico passaggio del cane da animale a individuo, il quale comincia ad assumerne abitudini e vizi. Lopera e unevidente critica nei confronti della societa sovietica, in particolare dei nuovi ricchi che sorsero dopo la Rivoluzione bolscevica.
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".
