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  • Manuscripts Don't Burn

    Mikhail Bulgakov: a Life in Letters and Diaries

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    _______________'Curtis spent a decade trying to negotiate her way past possessive Soviet archivists, and the result of her persistence is the most comprehensive selection of personal documents so far available in any language' - Simon Franklin, Times Literary Supplement'Ingeniously structured ... an absorbing and, at times, uplifting book' - Robert Russell, Modern Language Review'An engagin... ... Leer más

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  • Mikhail Bulgakov

    Series Libro 73 - Critical Lives
    Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940) has become the most popular Russian writer of the twentieth century, even though his works were banned for decades after his death due to the repressive Soviet censorship of literature. His great novel, The Master and Margarita (published only in 1973), was written in complete secrecy during the 1930s for fear of the writer being arrested and shot. In her revelatory ... Leer más

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  • Literary Biographies in The Lives of Remarkable People Series in Russia

    Biography for the Masses

    Series series Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context
    The legendary Russian biography series, The Lives of Remarkable People, has played a significant role in Russian culture from its inception in 1890 until today. The longest running biography series in world literature, it spans three centuries and widely divergent political and cultural epochs: Imperial, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Russia. The authors argue that the treatment of biographical figures ... Leer más

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  • New Drama in Russian

    Performance, Politics and Protest in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus

    Edición de J.A.E. Curtis ...
    Series series Library of Modern Russia
    How and why does the stage, and those who perform upon it, play such a significant role in the social makeup of modern Russia, Ukraine and Belarus? In New Drama in Russian, Julie Curtis brings together an international team of leading scholars and practitioners to tackle this complex question.New Drama, which draws heavily on techniques of documentary and verbatim writing, is a key means of ... Leer más

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  • Manuscripts Don't Burn

    A Life in Letters and Diaries

    A volume of the renowned Russian author's letters and diary entries: "an evocative chronicle of [his] life, beginning with the 1917 revolution" ( The Guardian, UK).Mikhail Bulgakov was one of the most important literary voices of Soviet Russia. Yet his books were banned in his own country and his greatest novel, The Master and Margarita, was only published more than twenty years after his death. ... Leer más

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