White Guard
~ Mikhail Bulgakov, Ms Marian Schwartz, Prof. Evgeny Dobrenko
A few people whose profile includes this book
Iren
~ 34-year-old woman in London, United Kingdom
White Guard
“The book was my big influence during last years in school. Together with his another novel 'The Master and Margarita'. Several...”
Doctor Zhivago
“The novel as big as the life. For me Boris Pasternak is the greatest writer and the greatest poet. His words and thoughts are so...”
Hillary
~ 24-year-old woman in Seattle, WA
White Guard
“Had a bit of a crush on Myshlaevsky, to be honest. Plus- Kiev! Ukrainian Nationalists! Explosions! Typhus!”
Heat
“This is a book about food. It's funny, well-paced, and very specific, and not only delves into the actual preparation of food,...”
Polina
~ 30-year-old woman in San Francisco, CA
The Little Prince
“I don't have enough words to describe the depth and beauty of the book so simply written”
A few comments on White Guard (3)
Nov 21, 10:18 PM
DavidRP, a 46-year-old man in Providence
“Sorry; 'wjp' is not a new English word, or even an old one. My right hand was in the wrong place again. Dos vadanya (Close, at all?)”
Nov 23, 12:27 PM
Iren, a 34-year-old woman in London
“You're almost there :) It's 'do svidaniya'. I'd love to see the new movie on 'Doctor Zhivago' with Keira Knightly as Lara, i think she must be good in this role. I don't know why you didn't dig the novel by Pasternak... it can be the matter with translation though, there's a lot of poetry in 'Doctor Zhivago' and poetry is hard to translate in the right way.”
Nov 21, 10:15 PM
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DavidRP, a 46-year-old man in Providence
“I'd never heard of Bulgakov, and now suddenly he is everywhere. Someone suggested that I try 'Master and Margarita' and I liked the sound of it, Satan visiting Moscow in the 30s and bedeviling writers. I've also had the pleasure of living with two black cats, though they were tiny and the male, in particular, was not very bright. A good boy, but a little slow. My Russian reading has been mostly Dostoevsky ('Crime and Punishment' in particular floored me when I first read it), Tolstoy, a little Chekhov and Turgenev. I was surprised, a bit, by your enthusiasm for Pasternak. Maybe I missed something there. I think the story has been made into a few great movies, most recently with Keira Knightley, but I didn't find myself suddenly absorbed by the book in the manner I was by Raskolnikov living up in his garret. You would know better than me, I suppose, and I'll look at it again sometime. Thanks for some good tips. It was Hemingway in 'A Moveable Feast' wjp turned me on to the Russian novelists, and I'm always happy for a new lead.”