A young doctor's notebook / Mikhail Bulgakov ; translated by Hugh Aplin.

By:

Bulgakov, Mikhail, 1891-1940 [author]

Contributor(s):

Aplin, Hugh A [translator]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Russian Publication details: Richmond, Surrey : Alma Classics, 2012.Description: 193 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm.ISBN:

9781847492869

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Short stories

LOC classification:

PG3476.B78 Y68 2012

Contents:

Contains: ‘The Towel with a Cockerel Motif’, ‘Baptism by Version’, ‘The Steel Throat’, ‘The Blizzard’, ‘Egyptian Darkness’, ‘The Starry Rash’, ‘The Missing Eye’, ‘Morphine’.

Summary: 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.

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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.