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Interview with Bill Marx on PRI’s The World

By mbs | Published: October 1, 2008

Listen to my interview with Bill Marx, broadcast on August 15, 2008, for his World Books series on PRI’s The World, about making the "first complete and accurate translation" of White Guard, Mikhail Bulgakov’s first novel. An epic story of the Russian civil war, the book anticipates Bulgakov’s masterpiece, The Master and Margarita.

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White Guard, by Mikhail Bulgakov

By mbs | Published: October 8, 1931

White Guard By Mikhail Bulgakov Introduction by Evgeny Dobrenko Translated by Marian Schwartz Yale University Press, 2008; paperback ed. 2009 Winner, 2009 AATSEEL Award for Best Translation into English White Guard, Mikhail Bulgakov’s semi-autobiographical first novel, revolves around a Ukrainian family in their home city of Kiev in 1918. Alexei, Elena, and Nikolka Turbin, adult [...]

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