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Manuscripts Dont Burn
The Russian playwright and novelist Mikhail Bulgakov (1891 - 1940) is now widely acknowledged as one of the giants of twentieth-century Soviet literature ranking with such luminaries as Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn. In his own lifetime however a casualty of Stalinist repression he was scarcely published at all and his plays reached the stage only with huge difficulty. His greatest masterpiece The Master and Margarita a novel written in the 1930s in complete secrecy largely at night did not appear in print until more than a quarter of a century after his death. It has since become a worldwide bestseller. In Manuscripts Dont Burn J.A.E. Curtis has collated the fruits of eleven years of research to produce a fascinating chronicle of Bulgakovs life using a mass of exciting new material - much of
which has never been published before. In particular she is the only Westerner to have been granted access to either Bulgakovs or his wife Yelena Sergeyevnas diaries which record in vivid detail the nightmarish precariousness of life during the Stalinist purges. J.A.E Curtis combines these diaries with extracts from letters to and from Bulgakov and with her own illuminating commentary to create a lively and highly readable account. Her vast collection of Bulgakovs correspondence is unparalleled even in the USSR and she draws on it judiciously to include letters addressed directly to Stalin in which Bulgakovs pleads to be allowed to emigrate; letters to his sisters and to his brother in Paris whom he did not see for twenty years; intimate notes to his second and third wives; and letters to
and from well-known writers such as Gorky and Zamyatin. Manuscripts Dont Burn provides a forceful and compelling insight into the pressures of day-to-day existence for a man fighting persecution in order to make a career as a writer in Stalinist Russia.
which has never been published before. In particular she is the only Westerner to have been granted access to either Bulgakovs or his wife Yelena Sergeyevnas diaries which record in vivid detail the nightmarish precariousness of life during the Stalinist purges. J.A.E Curtis combines these diaries with extracts from letters to and from Bulgakov and with her own illuminating commentary to create a lively and highly readable account. Her vast collection of Bulgakovs correspondence is unparalleled even in the USSR and she draws on it judiciously to include letters addressed directly to Stalin in which Bulgakovs pleads to be allowed to emigrate; letters to his sisters and to his brother in Paris whom he did not see for twenty years; intimate notes to his second and third wives; and letters to
and from well-known writers such as Gorky and Zamyatin. Manuscripts Dont Burn provides a forceful and compelling insight into the pressures of day-to-day existence for a man fighting persecution in order to make a career as a writer in Stalinist Russia.
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