A young doctor's notebook
Bulgakov, Mikhail 1891-1940
A young doctor's notebook / Mikhail Bulgakov ; translated by Hugh Aplin. - Richmond, Surrey : Alma Classics, 2012. - 193 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm.
'The stories in 'A Young Doctor's Notebook' first published in Russian in 1925-26'.
Contains: ‘The Towel with a Cockerel Motif’, ‘Baptism by Version’, ‘The Steel Throat’, ‘The Blizzard’, ‘Egyptian Darkness’, ‘The Starry Rash’, ‘The Missing Eye’, ‘Morphine’.
In this collection of short stories, drawing heavily from the author’s own experiences as a medical graduate on the eve of the Russian Revolution, Bulgakov describes a young doctor’s turbulent and often brutal introduction to his practice in the backward village of Muryovo.
Using a sharply realistic and humorous style, Bulgakov reveals his doubts about his own competence and the immense burden of responsibility, as he deals with a superstitious and poorly educated people struggling to enter the modern age. This acclaimed collection contains some of Bulgakov’s most personal and insightful observations on youth, isolation and progress.
English adaptation of original Russian work.
9781847492869
Bulgakov, Mikhail, 1891-1940 --Translations into English.
Physicians--Fiction
Country life--Russia--Fiction
Russia--Social life and customs--Fiction
Short stories
PG3476.B78 / Y68 2012
A young doctor's notebook / Mikhail Bulgakov ; translated by Hugh Aplin. - Richmond, Surrey : Alma Classics, 2012. - 193 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm.
'The stories in 'A Young Doctor's Notebook' first published in Russian in 1925-26'.
Contains: ‘The Towel with a Cockerel Motif’, ‘Baptism by Version’, ‘The Steel Throat’, ‘The Blizzard’, ‘Egyptian Darkness’, ‘The Starry Rash’, ‘The Missing Eye’, ‘Morphine’.
In this collection of short stories, drawing heavily from the author’s own experiences as a medical graduate on the eve of the Russian Revolution, Bulgakov describes a young doctor’s turbulent and often brutal introduction to his practice in the backward village of Muryovo.
Using a sharply realistic and humorous style, Bulgakov reveals his doubts about his own competence and the immense burden of responsibility, as he deals with a superstitious and poorly educated people struggling to enter the modern age. This acclaimed collection contains some of Bulgakov’s most personal and insightful observations on youth, isolation and progress.
English adaptation of original Russian work.
9781847492869
Bulgakov, Mikhail, 1891-1940 --Translations into English.
Physicians--Fiction
Country life--Russia--Fiction
Russia--Social life and customs--Fiction
Short stories
PG3476.B78 / Y68 2012
