Mikhail Bulgakov
Praise for The White Guard
It's a visceral book and very visual. It's got little details that just take you there immediately. I don't know what it would be like for someone who doesn't know the history but to me, it feels like you're watchin ...
Orlando Figes, Fivebooks.com
Bulgakov's love for Kiev at this time of the Russian civil war is reflected in two ways. There's a boyish love, a proud schoolboy fascination with its workings and its lights and its cosiness under the snow, and a s ...
James Meek, Guardian
[Bulgakov] began as a journalist, and this served him well with The White Guard, whose prose is taut, concise, but lyrical too
Doris Lessing
It's a visceral book and very visual. It's got little details that just take you there immediately. I don't know what it would be like for someone who doesn't know the history but to me, it feels like you're watchin ...
Orlando Figes, Fivebooks.com
Bulgakov's love for Kiev at this time of the Russian civil war is reflected in two ways. There's a boyish love, a proud schoolboy fascination with its workings and its lights and its cosiness under the snow, and a s ...
James Meek, Guardian
[Bulgakov] began as a journalist, and this served him well with The White Guard, whose prose is taut, concise, but lyrical too
Doris Lessing
It's a visceral book and very visual. It's got little details that just take you there immediately. I don't know what it would be like for someone who doesn't know the history but to me, it feels like you're watchin ...
Orlando Figes, Fivebooks.com
Bulgakov's love for Kiev at this time of the Russian civil war is reflected in two ways. There's a boyish love, a proud schoolboy fascination with its workings and its lights and its cosiness under the snow, and a s ...
James Meek, Guardian
[Bulgakov] began as a journalist, and this served him well with The White Guard, whose prose is taut, concise, but lyrical too
Doris Lessing
