Description
| Product ID: | 9781847493873 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Notes on a Cuff and Other Stories: New Translation |
| Authors: | Author: Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov, Roger Cockrell |
| Page Count: | 224 |
| Subjects: | Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Short stories, Fiction in translation, Short stories, Fiction in translation |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Stylistically brilliant and brimming with humour and literary allusion, Notes on a Cuff is presented here in a new translation, along with a collection of other short pieces by Bulgakov, many of them - such as 'The Cockroach' and 'A Dissolute Man' - published for the first time in the English language. Begun in 1920 while Bulgakov was employed in a hospital in the remote Caucasian outpost of Vladikavkaz, and continued when he started working for a government literary department in Moscow, Notes on a Cuff is a series of journalistic sketches which show the young doctor trying to embark on a literary career among the chaos of war, disease, politics and bureaucracy.Stylistically brilliant and brimming with humour and literary allusion, Notes on a Cuff is presented here in a new translation, along with a collection of other short pieces by Bulgakov, many of them – such as ‘The Cockroach’ and ‘A Dissolute Man’ – published for the first time in the English language. |
| Imprint Name: | Alma Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Alma Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2014-11-19 |