Bulgakov: Selected Works

Mikhail Bulgakov is considered one of the most mysterious figures in Russian literature. And he is only rivaled by Nikolai Gogol, who greatly influenced Bulgakov to the extent that some researchers considered him "Gogol the Second." And his strange life, full of twists of fate, can itself be taken as a subject for a great novel. He suffered from poverty and homelessness in his youth due to the October socialist revolution and his flight from his city Kyiv to the Urals, and each side of the Russian civil war wanted to enlist him to serve their purposes because he was a doctor needed by all fighters on the front lines. And when the civil war was over, he decided to abandon the medical profession and dedicate himself to literary creativity. And thus his star suddenly shone in the twenties of the twentieth century after publishing his epic novel "The White Guard" and then his plays. And his last literary work was the novel "The Master and Margarita," one of his greatest novels, in which he mixed the story of Christ and Polat and the Emperor's court with the story of the poet pursued by authority. And this novel and many of his works were not published until after his death. And what is regrettable is that the majority of his works have not been accurately and honestly translated from Russian. The current collection of his selected works is an attempt to introduce the Arab reader to some of the works of this outstanding writer.