The Life of Monsieur de Moliere: New Translation

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Written in 1932, but not published until 1962, over twenty years after its authors death, The Life of Monsieur de Molire charts the life of the French playwright, from his humble beginnings to later theatrical triumphs and political controversies. The work was met with disapproval by the Soviet authorities, who detected parallels between the lives of Molire and Bulgakov, and viewed the work as a veiled critique of their own times. With a dazzling blend of biography and novelistic imagination, Bulgakovs eccentric and satirical take on the life of a fellow writer energetically captures the genius of Molire, while revealing another aspect of his own self.

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One of the great writers of the twentieth century. -- A.S. Byatt

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Born in Kiev in 1891 to Russian parents, Mikhail Bulgakov trained as a doctor and volunteered for the Red Cross on the outbreak of the First World War. He later enlisted as a doctor for the anti-Bolshevik White Army, before eventually giving up medicine to concentrate on literature. The Master and Margarita is his most famous work, and has been hailed as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.