The five, irreverant, satirical and imaginative stories contained in Diaboliad caused an uproar upon the book's first publication in 1925. Full of invention, they display Bulgakov's breathtaking stylistic range, moving at dizzying speed from grotesque satire to science fiction, from the plainest realism to the most madcap fantasy. Diaboliad is a wonderful introduction to literature's most uncategorisable and subversive genius.
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891 - 1940) was born and educated in Kiev where he graduated as a doctor in 1916. He rapidly abandoned medicine to write some of the greatest Russian literature of this century. After a lifetime at odds with the stultifying Soviet regime, he died impoverished and blind in 1940, shortly after completing his masterpiece, The Master and Margarita. None of his major fiction was published during his lifetime.
Title: Diaboliad (Vintage Classics)
Author: Mikhail Bulgakov
ISBN: 9780099529552
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Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication Date: 2010-01-07
Number of Pages: 208
Weight: 0.1588 kg
One of the greatest modern Russian writers, perhaps the greatest * Independent *
A writer of fantastic genius * Sunday Times *
Bulgakov is a wild, mobile, crafty devotee of ideas * Guardian *