Mikhail Bulgakov

Born 15 May 1891 · Died 10 March 1940

From Kyiv, Ukraine · Nationality: Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union, Russian Empire · Writes fiction and nonfiction

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (Russian: Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков, (15 May [O.S. 3 May] 1891 – 10 March 1940) 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.

Quotes

“Man is mortal and, as has rightly been said, unexpectedly mortal.”
The Master and Margarita
“`Second freshness - that's what is nonsense! There is only one freshness - the first - and it is also the last. And if sturgeon is of the second freshness, that means it is simply rotten.'”
The Master and Margarita
'For some reason, cats are usually addressed familiarly, though no cat has ever drunk bruderschaft with anyone.'
The Master and Margarita
'Unfortunately I cannot show it to you,' replied the master, 'because I burned it in my stove.''I'm sorry but I don't believe you,' said Woland. 'You can't have done. Manuscripts don't burn.'
The Master and Margarita
“There was something uncommonly fake and uncertain in every line of these articles, despite their threatening and self-assured tone. I kept thinking . . . that the authors of these articles weren't saying what they wanted to say, and that that was why they were so furious.”
The Master and Margarita

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Books by Mikhail Bulgakov in order

Books by Mikhail Bulgakov in the order they were published, from Diaboliad (1924) to Corazón de perro (2020).

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Nikolai GogolA major influence on Bulgakov's satire, comic grotesque and use of the supernatural in Russian city life.
Yevgeny ZamyatinA Russian writer whose dystopian novel We (1921) also satirizes Soviet-era conformity and state control.
Yuri OleshaA Soviet writer of the same period whose novel Envy deals with the conflicts between old and new values.
Andrei PlatonovA Soviet writer whose experimental prose also deals with the Civil War, the revolution and the cost of ideology.
Franz KafkaReaders of Bulgakov often also read Kafka for the way both writers show bureaucracy and power as absurd.
Vladimir NabokovAnother Russian-language writer whose work is playful, allusive and often shaped by exile.