Mikhail bulgakov a critical biography pdf

For many years specialists have followed with dose attention the publications in Russian and English of the eminent British Bulgakov scholar, Lesley Milne.

Mikhail bulgakov a critical biography pdf

Drawing on an immense range of published and archival sources, including a number of very significant recent publications, her critical biography now draws together the threads of her investigations. In her survey of his career, Milne identifies a number of features fundamental to Bulgakov's outlook - the way in which questions of responsibility and conscience shape his works from first to last, with a moral, rather than political concern underpinning his philosophy.

The pursuit of brilliance drives Bulgakov from medicine to literature and drama. Milne sees his humour as a concomitant of honour, and, in a Bakhtinian sense, as a liberating agent; and she analyses in his later works in particular the ways in which satirical humour and buffoon