Manuscripts Don't Burn

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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140883121X
• ISBN13: 9781408831212
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 336 Pages
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

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.