Mikhail bulgakov a critical biography pdf

For many years specialists have followed with dose attention the publications in Russian and English of the eminent British Bulgakov scholar, Lesley Milne. Drawing on an immense range of published and archival sources, including a number of very significant recent publications, her critical biography now draws together the threads of her investigations. In her survey of his career, Milne identifies a number of features fundamental to Bulgakov's outlook - the way in which questions of responsibility and conscience shape his works from first to last, with a moral, rather than political concern underpinning his philosophy. The pursuit of brilliance drives Bulgakov from medicine to literature and drama. Milne sees his humour as a concomitant of honour, and, in a Bakhtinian sense, as a liberating agent; and she analyses in his later works in particular the ways in which satirical humour and buffoon What is a critical biography.