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The Independent Praises White Guard

By mbs | Published: October 2, 2009

Boyd Tonkin at The Independent has given my translation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s White Guard a short but very sweet review: Marian Schwartz’s pacey and compelling new translation of this most unstuffy classic captures a wonderful chronicle of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath as a colourful, absurd and even merry cocktail of nightmare and farce. [...]

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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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