A Country Doctor's Notebook
Brilliant stories that show the growth of a novelist's mind, and the raw material that fed the wild surrealism of Bulgakov's later fiction.With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr. Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia which, in 1916-17, was still...
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Brilliant stories that show the growth of a novelist's mind, and the raw material that fed the wild surrealism of Bulgakov's later fiction.With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr. Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia which, in 1916-17, was still largely unaffected by such novelties as the motor car, the telephone or electric light. How his alter-ego copes (or fails to cope) with the new and often appalling responsibilities of a lone doctor in a vast country practice — on the eve of Revolution — is described in Bulgakov's delightful blend of candid realism and imaginative exuberance.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099529569 (0099529564)
ASIN: 99529564
Publish date: January 7th 2010
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Humor,
Literature,
Cultural,
20th Century,
Drama,
Health,
Russia,
Russian Literature,
Medicine,
Short Stories
Inspired by Bulgakov's experiences as a newly graduated young doctor, this is a short stories collection filled with medical accounts, confusing diagnoses and Russian peasants that know nothing and yet are stubborn. It sometimes reminded me of House m.d., the way he verbally abused his patients so t...
A thin book that talked about a new qualified doctor going to the country side to be a resident doctor for a small hospital.He is inexperience and the notebook show his work, and his nerve, and his inner thoughts.I love his other work. For me, this is like good whiskey that one would want to drink f...
"I am a doctor, thrown straight from the university bench into a far away village, in the beginning of the revolution."¹¹ EXTRA! EXTRA! Now to be translated to a small screen featuring Daniel Radcliffe. And it will be "a new black comedy". I kid you not. I'm still trying to decide how I feel about i...
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