![]() ![]() ‘Stories as keen and bright as a scalpel… Courage shines from every angle of this profoundly human collection by the greatest of modern Russian writers.’ – Sunday Times One begins to see that he became a novelist not because he had material but because he was storing up passion and temperament’ – V.S. ![]() ‘The oil lamps of his little provincial hospital seemed to him a lonely beacon which symbolised the battle between light and darkness… These straightforward yet extraordinary sketches gain their strength from also being the account of a young man’s growth. How his alter-ego copes (or fails to cope) with the new and often appalling responsibilities of a lone doctor in a vast country practice - on the eve of Revolution - is described in Bulgakov’s delightful blend of candid realism and imaginative exuberance. Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia which, in 1916-17, was still largely unaffected by such novelties as the motor car, the telephone or electric light. With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr. Brilliant stories that show the growth of a novelist’s mind, and the raw material that fed the wild surrealism of Bulgakov’s later fiction. ![]()
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