Mikhail Bulgakov: The White Guard

Cover: 9780099490661 | The White Guard | Mikhail Bulgakov | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2006

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The Turbins gather in warmth and lamplight. Beyond their apartment, Kyiv is falling into civil war.

Discover Mikhail Bulgakov's classic literary love letter to the city of Kyiv.
Drawing closely on Bulgakov's personal experiences of civil war as a young doctor, The White Guard takes place in Kyiv during the winter of 1918-1919, as the German-backed Hetmanate collapses and rival forces fight for control of the city.
At the centre of the novel are the Turbins: Alexei, Elena and Nikolka, siblings trying to preserve their home, loyalty and dignity as the world they know breaks apart. Around them, officers, civilians and political opportunists move through panic, rumour, betrayal and sudden violence.
Bulgakov's first novel is a classic of twentieth-century Russian literature: a literary historical novel about family, civil war, political collapse and the fragility of civilisation. Domestic realism, satire and war chronicle combine in a moving portrait of people trying to remain human amid revolution.

'The tumultuous atmosphere of the Ukrainian revolution and civil war is brilliantly evoked' Daily Telegraph

The Turbins gather in warmth and lamplight. Beyond their apartment, Kyiv is falling into civil war.

Über den Autor

Mikhail Bulgakov (1891 - 1940) was born and educated in Kiev where he graduated as a doctor in 1916, but gave up the practice of medicine in 1920 to devote himself to literature. In 1925 he completed the satirical novella The Heart of a Dog, which remained unpublished in the Soviet Union until 1987. This was one of the many defeats he was to suffer at the hands of his censors. By 1930 Bulgakov had become so frustrated by the political atmosphere and the suppression of his works that he wrote to Stalin begging to be allowed to emigrate if he was not to be given the opportunity to make his living as a writer in the USSR. Stalin telephoned him personally and offered to arrange a job for him at the Moscow Arts Theatre instead. In 1938, a year before contracting a fatal illness, he completed his prose masterpiece, The Master and Margarita. He died in 1940. In 1966-7, thanks to the persistance of his widow, the novel made a first, incomplete, appearance in Moskva, and in 1973 appeared in full.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2006
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780099490661
ISBN-10:	0099490668
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Bulgakov, Mikhail
Hersteller:	Vintage Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	204 x 129 x 22 mm
Von/Mit:	Mikhail Bulgakov
Erscheinungsdatum:	06.07.2006
Gewicht:	0,229 kg