ISBN: 9780099529552    Publisher: Random House Year of publishing: 2010     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 208        Language: English

The five, irreverant, satirical and imaginative stories contained in 'Diaboliad' caused an uproar upon the book's first publication in 1925. Full of invention, they display Bulgakov's breathtaking stylistic range, moving at dizzying speed from grotesque satire to science fiction, from the plainest realism to the most madcap fantasy. 'Diaboliad' is a wonderful introduction to literature's most uncategorisable and subversive genius.
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Mikhail Bulgakov (1891 - 1940) was born and educated in Kiev where he graduated as a doctor in 1916. He rapidly abandoned medicine to write some of the greatest Russian literature of this century. After a lifetime at odds with the stultifying Soviet regime, he died impoverished and blind in 1940, shortly after completing his masterpiece, The Master and Margarita. None of his major fiction was published during his lifetime.
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