The only translation of Bulgakov's entire first collection of short stories, works which range from the surreal to science-fiction to parody. 
 Contents: Diaboliad, The Fatal Eggs, "No. 13, the Elpit-Rabkommun Building," "A Chinese Tale," and "The Adventures of Chichikov."

Diaboliad: And Other Stories (Ardis Russian Literature)

Literature & Fiction

Bulgakov, Mikhail Afanasevich

Proffer, Ellendea

Proffer, Carl R.

Short Stories & Anthologies

ARDIS

Ellendea Proffer is a well-known Bulgakov expert, translator and publisher. She is known for Mikhail Bulgakov: Life & Work (1984); translations of Bulgakov's plays and prose; numerous articles and introductions, most prominently the Notes and Afterword to the Burgin-O'Connor translation of Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita.

Bulgakov: Life and work

Book by Proffer, Carl R., Proffer, Ellendea

Barsukov Triangle, the Two-Toned Blonde and Other Stories (English and Russian Edition)

Contemporary

<div> <div> Mikhail Bulgakov was one of the heroes of twentieth century fiction, and his novel The Master and Margarita is a masterpiece that continues to find a new and devoted readership with every passing generation. Over seventy years after his death, Bulgakov is both the most widely adored and critically acclaimed writer of the Soviet era. As the critic Donald Rayfield has written, "nobody could render the intervention of the demonic into a corrupt and degraded world so comically and so frighteningly as Bulgakov did in his two major novels (Black Snow and The Master and Margarita) and his short stories and plays." Ellendea Proffer&rsquo;s major biography, Bulgakov, captures both the spirited, idiosyncratic, haunted man who changed literary history and the exceptional body of work that lives on long after his death. With a dual emphasis on history and criticism suggested by the book&rsquo;s subtitle, Life and Work, Proffer&rsquo;s book is a unique and essential worka gift both to students of literary history and to fans of Bulgakov who simply want a closer look at the man who gave the world The Master and Margarita. </div> </div>

Bulgakov: His Life and Work

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Overlook Pr

"The Death of a Poet" is a harrowing account of how the forces of fate combined to destroy the life of one of twentieth-century Russian literature's most talented and esteemed poets during the bloodiest period of Stalin's regime. In 1937, at the height of her creative powers and living comfortably in exile in Paris, Marina Tsvetaeva made the fateful decision to follow her husband, Sergei Efron, back to Moscow. Soon after their reunion, both Alya, their daughter, and Efron were arrested for ?anti-Soviet activity.? Cast onto the street and living in fear that her own arrest was imminent, the poet who once stood at the pinnacle of Russian letters descended into a living hell, compounded by official persecution, the indifference of peers, and finally, the beginning of World War II and Nazi air raids over Moscow. 
 Incorporating unprecedented access to KGB records, Irma Kudrova has recreated the final days of the poet, examining several theories of the events that culminated in Tsvetaeva's suicide at the age of forty-nine. "The Death of a Poet" is both a tribute and indictment, and a moving chronicle of the struggle of a great mind to endure.

The Death Of A Poet: The Last Days of Marina Tsvetaeva

Press, The Overlook

Kudrova, Irma

Abrams Press

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