The Life of Mikhail Bulgakov
32 hrs. 26 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Marietta Chudakova
Author
Marietta Chudakova
Narrator
Yuliya Tarkhova
Narrator
Yuliya Tarkhova
Description
The author of this book is the outstanding Russian literary scholar, Doctor of Philology Marietta Omarovna Chudakova (1937–2021). “The Life of Mikhail Bulgakov” was published in 1988— for the first time, the biography of the writer appeared in such a consistent and comprehensive presentation.
Readers were given the opportunity to become acquainted with archival documents, testimonies of people who were close to the writer, fragments of his diaries and letters (at that time still unpublished), and, most importantly, to appreciate the true scale of Bulgakov’s personality—without censored gloss and ideological silences. Today it is hard to even imagine how much work it took M. O. Chudakova to gather all the factual material we have at our disposal now.
To this day, this book remains the most authoritative study of Bulgakov’s biography. It was translated into other languages, but in response to many proposals from Russian publishers, M. O. Chudakova refused: she hoped to prepare a revised version of the text, but she never managed to do it. Nevertheless, the present edition includes the author’s corrections to the text that were preserved in the Chudakova family’s copy from their home library.
Readers were given the opportunity to become acquainted with archival documents, testimonies of people who were close to the writer, fragments of his diaries and letters (at that time still unpublished), and, most importantly, to appreciate the true scale of Bulgakov’s personality—without censored gloss and ideological silences. Today it is hard to even imagine how much work it took M. O. Chudakova to gather all the factual material we have at our disposal now.
To this day, this book remains the most authoritative study of Bulgakov’s biography. It was translated into other languages, but in response to many proposals from Russian publishers, M. O. Chudakova refused: she hoped to prepare a revised version of the text, but she never managed to do it. Nevertheless, the present edition includes the author’s corrections to the text that were preserved in the Chudakova family’s copy from their home library.
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