Descrizione
Price: 26,70 €
(as of Sep 06, 2024 00:41:01 UTC – Details)
Bulgakov’s brilliant novel, first published in 1925, portrays his beloved city of Kiev as it is torn apart during a few crucial weeks in 1918, seen through the eyes of a family fleeing the Russian revolution.
With cinematic vividness, Bulgakov puts us on the streets of a gracious, historic city as it is successively besieged by invading Germans, Ukrainian nationalists, the Red Guard of the Bolsheviks, and the White Guard loyal to the recently executed tsar. The Turbin siblings, once wealthy and secure in Russia, have fled to Kiev to escape the ongoing civil war, but find themselves surrounded by chaos and danger. As Bulgakov depicts their devotion to a doomed cause and the surreal horrors they face, he provides a view of history that is both grandly panoramic and movingly intimate.
Everyman’s Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.
Editore : Everyman’s Library (6 febbraio 2024)
Lingua : Inglese
Copertina rigida : 392 pagine
ISBN-10 : 1101908440
ISBN-13 : 978-1101908440
Peso articolo : 544 g
Dimensioni : 13.34 x 2.92 x 21.16 cm
DON LEE –
Superb writing ⦠I can only dream how glorious the original language and structure must have been. It is insightful and wonderfully told about the happenings in Kiev during the jockeying for political power at the time of the Bolshevik takeover. Read and you wonât be disappointed.