Mikhail Bulgakov is the preeminent Russian mystic of the 20th century. A physician by training and a subtle satirist by vocation, he personally witnessed and masterfully depicted the collapse of eras, the Revolution, the Civil War, the challenges of his profession, and the abyss of addiction.
For his short story cycle "A Young Doctor's Notebook," he drew upon his own experience as a rural doctor to create a gallery of colorful characters with their own quirks, fears, and prejudices. The novella "Morphine," stylized as a diary, is also largely autobiographical—following a botched operation, Bulgakov was forced to inject himself with painkillers and became addicted. "Morphine" is a frighteningly candid, agonizing confession.
Author: Mikhail Bulgakov
Pages: 320 (offset paper). Paperback
Dimensions: 200x126x15 mm
Series: Magistral. Vstrechnoye dvizheniye
