Notes on a Cuff
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A collection of comic, self-aware, and stylistically dazzling short stories touching on such familiar territory for many Russian authors as disease, famine, civil war, and political turmoil,
showcases the style that Mikhail Bulgakov would be known for during the literary and theatrical renaissance of 1920s Moscow and beyond.
Written between 1920 and 1921 while Bulgakov was employed as a doctor in a rural hospital in the Caucasus region,
presents a series of first-person comedic sketches centered on a young writer (Bulgakov's semiautobiographical proxy) fighting to launch his literary career despite great personal and political odds.
"A very good place to start on Bulgakov if you haven't read any of his work before."—
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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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