A Country Doctor's Notebook
  • Published: 1 March 2010
  • ISBN: 9780099529569
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $24.99

A Country Doctor's Notebook

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Brilliant stories which show the growth of a novelist's mind, and the raw material which fed the wild surrealism of Bulgakov's later fiction

TRANSLATED BY MICHAEL GLENNY

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.
  • Published: 1 March 2010
  • ISBN: 9780099529569
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Mikhail Bulgakov

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov was a Russian, later Soviet writer, medical doctor, and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his novel The Master and Margarita, published posthumously, which has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century

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Praise for A Country Doctor's Notebook

A marvellous writer

Michael Frayn

The oil lamps of his little provincial hospital seemed to him a lonely beacon which symbolised the battle between light and darkness... These straighforward yet extraordinary sketches gain their strength from also being the account of a young man's growth. One begins to see that he became a novelist not because he had material but because he was storing up passion and temperament

V.S. Pritchett, New Statesman

Wryly funny and fascinating

Sunday Times

Blizzards blow, wolves run loose in the forests, the doctor duels with Death, who is never satisfied

Harpers & Queen

Stories as keen and bright as a scalpel... Courage shines from every angle of this profoundly human collection by the greatest of modern Russian writers

Sunday Times