Mikhail Bulgakov (Critical Survey of Drama)

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Although Mikhail Bulgakov is regarded in the Soviet Union primarily as a dramatist, especially for the plays of the mid- to late 1920’s, he is best known in the West for his novels Master i Margarita (1966-1967; The Master and Margarita, 1967) and Sobache serdtse (1968-1969; The Heart of a Dog, 1968). The fact is, however, that once Bulgakov abandoned his career as a doctor in 1920 to devote himself fully to writing, he composed works in almost all literary forms. Beginning as a hack writer, Bulgakov published more than 160...

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