Bulgakov: The Novelist-Playwright (Hardcover)

SECTION I 1. Home and Homelessness (Aleksandr Blok and Mikhail Bulgakov) 2. From Salon to Samizdat 3. Nikolka Turbin and the Bulgakov Brothers (From the Family Archive) 4. Bulgakov, Stalin and Autocracy 5. The Days of the Turbins by Mikhail Bulgakov in the Light of the Russian-Ukrainian Literary Discussion 6. Nationalism, Anti-Semitism and Bulgakov 7. Mikhail Afanasievich and the Sergei Paphnutieviches SECTION II 8. Reality and Illusion: Duality in Bulgakov’s Theatre Plays 9. The Fatal Eggs and Adam and Eve: Disruption and Restoration of the Natural Order 10. The Story “Morphine”: An Attempt at Analysis in the Context of Bulgakov’s Creative Biography 11. The Gospel According to Woland and the Tradition of the Wandering Jew 12. “Pilatism” in Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita 13. The Role and Meaning of Madness in The Master and Margarita: The Novel as a Doppelganger Tale 14. Dreamers and Dreaming in M.A.Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita 15. The Meaning of Music and Musical Images in the Works of Mikhail Bulgakov 16. Giving the Devil His Due: The Register of Voices in The Master and Margarita and in York Holler’s Operatic Adaptation of the Novel SECTION III 17. The Tragic Irony of Fame 18. Diaboliad?Kafkiad? 19. Bulgakov Themes and Characters in The Works of Soviet Writers 20. Masters of the Satanic: Mikhail Bulgakov, Salman Rushdie and Umberto Eco 21. The Devil of a Similarity: The Satanic Verses and Masteri Margarita