Mikhail Bulgakov, the troublemaker: The non-Soviet writer of the Soviet era
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Mikhail Bulgakov, the troublemaker: The non-Soviet writer of the Soviet era
29.99 €
For over a hundred years, the works of M. Bulgakov have not only been present in the literary and historical-cultural life of the country, but they continue to cause heated debates around the world. Violetta Gudkova’s book is an attempt to trace the history of the reception of Bulgakov’s texts in Russia from the early stage of his creative career to the first decades of the 21st century. The author brings together the most diverse interpretations of M. Bulgakov’s work, analyzing how the assessments of his works by literary and theater critics changed over the period under consideration, what contemporaries wrote about the author of “The Master and Margarita” in their letters and diaries, what were the director’s tasks when staging Bulgakov’s plays and the audience’s reaction to them, what in the author’s texts did not suit the censors. The book ends with three general chapters, which reconstruct the sequence of publications of the writer’s legacy, the significant transformations of his image that took place in the 1970s–2000s, and a number of reflections on Bulgakov’s poetics. Violetta Gudkova is a theatre historian, literary scholar, textual critic, leading researcher at the theatre department of the State Institute of Art Studies, and the author of the books Yuri Olesha and Vsevolod Meyerhold at Work on the Play List of Good Deeds, Forgotten Plays, Theatre Section of the State Academic Art Academy, and The Birth of Soviet Plots, published by NLO.
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