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Diaboliad
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Mikhail Bulgakov's
, comprised of
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, and
, serves as an excellent introduction to this renowned Russian satirist and playwright's work.
Black comedy, biting social and political commentary, and Bulgakov's unique narrative exuberance combine to tell the tales of labyrinthine post-Revolution bureaucracy; clashes between science, the intellectual class, and the state; and the high price to be paid for the promised utopian world of Communism in early Soviet Russia. Bulgakov's signature eloquent skewering of the various shortcomings of the world around and within him can be found on every page, and horror and magic interweave in a constant dance of the absurd—a dance that would reach its highest point both stylistically and thematically in Bulgakov's tour de force novel
.
"One of the most original voices of the twentieth century." —
, UK
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“dude u take too much stuff”
“Ja chyba tego nie zrozumiałam.”
“biedny korotkow”
About Mikhail Bulgakov
is a prize-winning translator of Russian who recently received her second Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts to translate Olga Slavnikova’s newest novel,
. She has translated classic literary works by Nina Berberova and Yuri Olesha, as well as Edvard Radzinsky’s
.
is professor in the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies at the University of Sheffield. He is author, editor, or coeditor of more than fifteen books, including
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