Born in Kiev in 1891 to Russian parents, Mikhail Bulgakov trained as a doctor and volunteered for the Red Cross on the outbreak of the First World War. He later enlisted as a doctor for the anti-Bolshevik White Army, before eventually giving up medicine to concentrate on literature. The Master and Margarita is his most famous work, and has been hailed as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.
The diaries and selected letters are an important insight into this
funny, accomplished, always humane writer
*Philip Hensher, The Telegraph*
Intriguing letters and diary entries that fill out our picture of
the man… He remains one of the most original and witty writers in a
great age of literature. Roger Cockrell's book helps us to know him
better
*Elaine Feinstein, The Times*
Bulgakov was not merely a brilliant observer of what was going on
around him, but had an uncanny ability to pick out the particular
manifestations of folly and discord which would set the tone of the
era to follow.
*The Guardian*
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