A Country Doctor's Notebook
A Country Doctor's Notebook
Author: Mikhail Bulgakov
Desc: Brilliant stories that show the growth of a novelist's mind and the raw material that fed the wild surrealism of Bulgakov's later fiction. With the ink still wet on his diploma the twenty-five-year-old Dr. Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of freezing rural Russia which in 1916-17 was still largely unaffected by such novelties as the motor car the telephone or electric light. How his alter-ego copes (or fails to cope) with the new and often appalling responsibilities of a lone doctor in a vast country practice — on the eve of Revolution — is described in Bulgakov's delightful blend of candid realism and imaginative exuberance.