Check out this review of the book, Diaboliad and Other Stories, by Mikhail Bulgakov, as featured on the Little Bookness Lane blog
Publisher: Alma Classics
Publication date: This edition – 15th April 2015
This slim volume is bursting with four tall tales that are simply a rhapsody of random.
The characters’ often confusing psychological metamorphosis throughout is either a result of a mind of high intelligence, or someone that’s completely off their trolley. The jury’s still out on that one, I’m afraid!
The absurdities presented by strained Russian political situations in the early 20th century allow the plots to run riot, blitzing bureaucratic streets, oppressive workplaces, and the biting cold of uninviting apartment complexes.
A quick rundown of the stories include: a dismissed office clerk’s sulphur induced hallucinogenic doppelganger effect, the abrupt end to a tough regime that thrives courtesy of an insufferable building supervisor, an immigrant’s unintentional progression within the Russian army, and a surreal dream in which a man cons an entire province out of billions.
I can’t remotely fathom the whys and wherefores of the individual plots, other than
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