Mikhail Bulgakov
translated by Hugh Aplin
From the author of The Master and Margarita comes this short and tragic masterpiece about drug addiction
Pub Date: Thursday, September 26th, 2013
Polyakov is brought to his practice with a self-inflicted gunshot wound and, barely conscious, gives Bromgard his journal before dying. What Bromgard uncovers in the entries is Polyakov's uncontrollable descent into a merciless
morphine addiction — his first injection to ease his back pain, the thrill of the drug as it overtakes him, the looming signs of addiction, and the feverish final entries before his death.
Editorial Reviews
Review
"Even in his earliest writings, Mikhail Bulgakov exposed the ugliness and absurdity of Soviet reality." (The Washington Post)
"One of the great writers of the twentieth century." (A. S. Byatt)
About the Author:
20th century Russian novelist, playwright and journalist
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) is best known in the west for his monumental novel The Master and Margarita. A writer who remained in Russia after the Revolution, he had continual difficulty with censorship, and by 1930 his work was barred from publication or production. It wasn't until years after his death, in 1940, that The Master and Margarita was finally published.
Publisher: New Directions
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