Sublime

Boulgakov est le moins connu des grands écrivains russes de l’époque stalinienne. Pourtant Mikhaïl Boulgakov, né en 1891, est l’exact contemporain d’Ossip Mandelstam, né comme lui en 1891, de Vladimir Maïakovski né en 1893 et de Boris Pasternak né en 1890. On remarque qu’ils ont tous eu un destin tragique. Mandelstam a fini ses jours dans les camps

Bulgakov’s gentle irony is a warning against the mistake, more common in our time than we might think, of equating artistic mastery with a sort of saintliness, or, in Kierkegaard’s terms, of confusing the aesthetic with the ethical.

manuscripts don’t burn.’

‘Manuscripts don’t burn’,

He had the same aristocratic sense of equality with all living creatures and the same gift of taking in everything at a glance and of expressing his thoughts as they first came to him and before they had lost their meaning and vitality.