The Life of Monsieur de Moliere

Author : Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov

Paperback

Published : Wednesday 10 May 2017

ISBN : 9781847494733

Price : €10.83

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The Life of Monsieur de Moliere

by Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov

Paperback

10 May 2017

FICTION
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€10.83

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Charts the life of the French playwright - Moliere - from humble beginnings to later theatrical triumphs and political controversies.

Completed in 1933, but not published until 1962, over twenty years after its author's death, The Life of Monsieur de Moliere charts the life of the French playwright, from humble beginnings to later theatrical triumphs and political controversies. The work was met with disapproval by the Soviet authorities, who detected parallels between the lives of Moliere and Bulgakov, and viewed the work as a veiled critique of their own times. With a dazzling blend of biography and novelistic imagination, Bulgakov's eccentric and satirical take on the life of a fellow writer energetically captures the genius of Moliere, while revealing another aspect of his own self.

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