Mikhail Bulgakov: A Critical Biography (Major European Authors Series)

This is the full, post-glasnost critical biography of Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940), a great comic writer whose works are now regarded as modern classics both in the Soviet Union and in the West. It is only very recently that all Bulgakov's works have been published in the Soviet Union, and much new biographical information has also emerged. Lesley Milne makes full use of these discoveries in this account of Bulgakov's career as playwright and prose-writer. She examines all his works in the context of the totalitarian Soviet Union of the 1920s and 1930s, where artists were faced with the choice between silence and conformism, and traces his ethical concept of the writer's role, his response to his time, and his search for an audience in and beyond that time.Milne, Lesley is the author of 'Mikhail Bulgakov: A Critical Biography (Major European Authors Series)', published 1990 under ISBN 9780521227285 and ISBN 0521227283.