Notes on a Cuff and Other Stories
Brand new translation with many of the stories translated for the first time into English. Written between 1920 and 1921 while Bugakov was working in a hospital in the remote Caucasian outpost of Vladikavkaz, Notes on a Cuff is a series of journalistic sketches which show the young doctor trying to embark on a literary career among the chaos of war, disease, politics and bureaucracy. Stylistically brilliant and brimming with humour and literary allusion, Notes on a Cuff is presented here in a new translation, along with a collection of other short pieces by Bulgakov, many of them such as The Cockroach and A Dissolute Man published for the first time in the English language.
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Description
Brand new translation with many of the stories translated for the first time into English. Written between 1920 and 1921 while Bugakov was working in a hospital in the remote Caucasian outpost of Vladikavkaz, Notes on a Cuff is a series of journalistic sketches which show the young doctor trying to embark on a literary career among the chaos of war, disease, politics and bureaucracy. Stylistically brilliant and brimming with humour and literary allusion, Notes on a Cuff is presented here in a new translation, along with a collection of other short pieces by Bulgakov, many of them such as The Cockroach and A Dissolute Man published for the first time in the English language.
Publisher: Alma Classics
Paperback
2014
ISBN: 9781847493873
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