1st Edition

Bulgakov: The Novelist-Playwright

Edited By Lesley Milne Copyright 1995
    249 Pages
    by Routledge

    249 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 1996. In his native Russia, Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) is one of the writers whose works are most frequently read and whose plays are most frequently staged. Since his publication of his works from 1960s onwards, he has emerged as a major European author. This collection contains twenty-one articles by scholars from eight different countries: Britain, Canada, Czech Republic, France, India, Russia, Ukraine and the USA. In a diverse range of contributions, the authors discuss Bulgakov against the literary and theatrical background of his own time and in the context of today’s polycentric, multicultural world.

    SECTION I 1. Home and Homelessness (Aleksandr Blok and Mikhail Bulgakov) 2. From Salon to Samizdat 3. Nikolka Turbin and the Bulgakov Brothers (From the Family Archive) 4. Bulgakov, Stalin and Autocracy 5. The Days of the Turbins by Mikhail Bulgakov in the Light of the Russian-Ukrainian Literary Discussion 6. Nationalism, Anti-Semitism and Bulgakov 7. Mikhail Afanasievich and the Sergei Paphnutieviches SECTION II 8. Reality and Illusion: Duality in Bulgakov’s Theatre Plays 9. The Fatal Eggs and Adam and Eve: Disruption and Restoration of the Natural Order 10. The Story “Morphine”: An Attempt at Analysis in the Context of Bulgakov’s Creative Biography 11. The Gospel According to Woland and the Tradition of the Wandering Jew 12. “Pilatism” in Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita 13. The Role and Meaning of Madness in The Master and Margarita: The Novel as a Doppelgänger Tale 14. Dreamers and Dreaming in M.A.Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita 15. The Meaning of Music and Musical Images in the Works of Mikhail Bulgakov 16. Giving the Devil His Due: The Register of Voices in The Master and Margarita and in York Höller’s Operatic Adaptation of the Novel SECTION III 17. The Tragic Irony of Fame 18. Diaboliad—Kafkiad? 19. Bulgakov Themes and Characters in The Works of Soviet Writers 20. Masters of the Satanic: Mikhail Bulgakov, Salman Rushdie and Umberto Eco 21. The Devil of a Similarity: The Satanic Verses and Masteri Margarita

    Biography

    Edited by Lesley Milne, Reader in Modern Russian Literature, University of Nottingham, UK