Title: Mikhail Bulgakov
First published: 1998
Description: One of the foremost Russian writers of the Soviet period, Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) has attracted much critical attention. But Edythe Haber is the first to explore in depth his formative years, to probe the roots of his artistic vision.

Blending biography and literary analysis of motifs, story, and characterization, Haber tracks one writer's answer to the dislocations of revolution, civil war, and early Bolshevism. And from her examination of Bulgakov's satirical writings there emerges a vivid panorama of the burgeoning Soviet society. These comic sketches and novellas, blending the fantastic and quotidian, evoke an intellectual's struggle with a hostile new world.
Subjects: Authors, Russian, Autobiography in literature, Biography, Russian Authors, Bulgakov, mikhail afanasevich, 1891-1940
People: Mikhail Afanasʹevich Bulgakov (1891-1940)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PG3476.B78 Z679 1998