20th-century Russian literature
A01=Mikhail Bulgakov
adaptations of Cervantes's Don Quixote
Author_Mikhail Bulgakov
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Category=DSK
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literary adaptation and translation
Russian drama
Product details
- ISBN 9781603291491
- Weight: 259g
- Dimensions: 137 x 213mm
- Publication Date: 30 May 2014
- Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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When Soviet censors approved Mikhail Bulgakov's Don Kikhot [ ], a stage adaptation of Don Quixote, they were unaware that they were sanctioning a subtle but powerful criticism of Stalinist rule. The author, whose novel Master i Margarita would eventually bring him world renown, achieved this sleight of hand through a deft interpretation of Cervantes's knight. Bulgakov's Don Quixote fits comfortably into the nineteenth-century Russian tradition of idealistic, troubled intellectuals, but Quixote's quest becomes an allegory of the artist under the strictures of Stalin's regime. Bulgakov did not live to see the play performed: it went into production in 1940, only months after his death.
