BULGAKOV: WHERE TO START?

In this video I talk about Mikhail Bulgakov and I present a few of his works. Most of them are pretty short, and easy to read.
1. A Young Doctor's Notebook
2. Morphine
3. Heart of a Dog (or A Dog's Heart)
4. Ivan Vasilievich
5. The Crimson Island
6. Life of Monsieur de Molière
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[@user-il8nl9kb5t]

Милая Софи, большое удовольствие доставляет слушать Вас. Особенно в таком романтичном образе! Очень интересно вновь открывать для себя русскую литературу с Вашей помощью. Спасибо.

[@r3lativ]

Great video! Bulgakov's plays are also worth reading. His recreation of Don Quijote is fantastic.

[@marianenasheva5378]

Thanks for reminding how I love A Young Doctor's Notebook :) Reading of Morphine was an important experience in my adolescence. It is a good reason to promise yourself not even to think of trying drugs. The destruction of a personality is dreadful, and the fact that Bulgakov knew what he was describing makes it even scarier.

[@alidabaxter5849]

I loved this video. I fell head over heels in love with The Master and Margarita so many years ago and then looked for other books by him. The White Guard is a perfect book and then I found A Young Doctors Notebook and was so impressed. Back then in London in the early 1970s being mad about this author was like being a member of a small group. Now thank goodness his brilliance is acknowledged everywhere.

[@michaelfrantz975]

Great video. Anna has already spilt the sunflower oil

[@jenniferbrooks]

You make me want to immediately pick up everything you talk about! Bulgakov is high on my TBR now!

[@sitting_nut]

well thought out, broad and compact, introduction to bulgakov.

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

Many artists were largely discovered posthumously like Franz Kafka, Van Gogh and Pirosmani. Interesting video, I have yet to read Bulgakov but Master and Margarita has been on my want to read list for a while.

[@idab2605]

Where have you been my whole life? I've been bing watching all your videos. Just love the way you talk about literature, your analytical view while introducing the plot of the story is so settle and direct to the point.

[@majorwigsplit7500]

for all bulgakov lovers, i'd also kindly recommend plays "zoyka's apartment", "flight" and "the cabal of hypocrites", and unfinished novel "theatrical novel". all masterpieces. the mentioned "crimson island" is outrageously great play indeed.

[@CessKnock]

I got addicted to morphine(the book) from the first pages :) great video, as always!

[@attention5638]

Other than "Madter and Margarita" I wouldn't have been able to name another work of his. Which is strange, as I loved that novel. When an author has a novel that so greatly overshadows their bibliography, I assume it is all that is worth reading--which is quite ignorant of me, and I'm not sure why I do this. Whereas someone like Dostoevsky, who has more than one novel everyone know, I will read everything, and find out "The Idiot" is my personal favorite. So I really should know better.

[@catlatolea1]

Cool! Good selection. I think i will reread some of the mentioned books because.... exactly how you said:,, its short,, and worth it :)

[@bouquinsbooks]

Very interesting! I’ve read The life of Mr Moliere and The Master and Margarita, and you make me want to read many more. 😃

[@fernandoespinosa7170]

I'm glad that I found your videos, thank you very much for this one about Bulgakov, I have only read Heart of the Dog and I really enjoyed it, I just started now The White Guard and I would love to read the Master and Margarita.. I also want to ask you about what you said at

[@ghostwraith119]

Actually Stalin liked Bulgakov's books and respected him. Although her understood that Bulgakov doesn't like him.

[@emildanielsson9785]

Куда вы пропали? 😢

[@user-xz4all]

Now it's time to re-read the "White Guard", alas.

[@ghostwraith119]

Ivan the terrible- actually the terrible is not the best way to translate Grozny- more closer would be call him Dreadful or Fearsome. But not the terrible.