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When Soviet censors approved Mikhail Bulgakov's stage adaptation of Don Quixote, they were unaware that they were sanctioning a subtle but powerful criticism of Stalinist rule.The volume's introduction provides background for Bulgakov's adaptation and compares Bulgakov with Cervantes and the twentieth-century Russian work with the seventeenth century Spanish work.
About the author
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) grew up and was educated in Kiev. He practiced medicine but soon turned to journalism and writing. He struggled persistently for artistic freedom but was frustrated by the Soviet censorship. In the last seven years, he wrote to a friend in 1937, I have created sixteen works in various genres, and they have all been slain.
Margarita Marinova is associate professor of English at Christopher Newport University. She is the author of
Transnational Russian-American Travel Writing (2011) and has published essays in
Studies in Travel Writing,
Slavic and East European Journal, and
Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature.
Scott Pollard is professor of English at Christopher Newport University. He is the co-editor, with Kara Keeling, of
Food in Children's Literature: Critical Approaches. His research and teaching interests include world literature, Latin American literature, Middle Eastern literature, and food studies.
Summary
When Soviet censors approved Mikhail Bulgakov’s stage adaptation of Don Quixote, they were unaware that they were sanctioning a subtle but powerful criticism of Stalinist rule.The volume’s introduction provides background for Bulgakov’s adaptation and compares Bulgakov with Cervantes and the twentieth-century Russian work with the seventeenth century Spanish work.
