Manuscripts Don't Burn: Mikhail Bulgakov a Life in Letters and Diaries

by Mikhail Bulgakov

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879514620
• ISBN13: 9780879514624
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: Abrams Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Essential reading if you admire Bulgakov's work

Since I can't read Russian, I have to read Bulgakov's marvelous plays and novels ("Heart of a Dog", "The Master and Margarita", "Bliss") in translation. Nor did I experience, first-hand, the horrors of the Stalin purges. I love the work of Bulgakov--he's a master of satire and imagination. This biography in letters and notes is really essential for the non-Russian reader to get a sense of his history, life and work in a way that can't be conveyed in translation. It put all that I had read by Bulgakov into a far more comprehensible light.