Arms against a Sea of Troubles: Text and Context of Mikhail Bulgakov’s The White Guard
Journal: Connexe les espaces postcommunistes en question(s)
Year: 2020

This article focuses on the representation of historical events in literary texts by pointing at the tension between their factual and fictional elements. The fable and the setting of Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The White Guard and his novel-based play The Days of the Turbins serve as examples. Almost one hundred years after its first (incomplete) publication, Bulgakov’s novel remains an object of heated debates and is a pivot point for a broad range of current historical, ideological, and cultural