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30 gen 2012 · One of the most interesting features of Diaboliad is how physical it is. And how it uses the most mundane props of city life to create Bulgakov’s signature style of slapstick comedy combined with horror. It’s as if the manic Three Stooges were agents of darkness.
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Diaboliad is an absolutely hilarious story, a funny satire of Soviet life. It is clearly inspired by Dostoevsky's The Double , exploring a typical office clerk stuck in an insanely bureaucratic system who eventually, due to some hilariously stupid events, loses his mind.
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22 mar 2016 · A brilliant satire of Soviet society, it was not published until 1966, 26 years after his death. Although he never experienced stable success and renown during his life, Bulgakov’s body of work is...
THE DIABOLIAD AND OTHER STORIES 4 Then, for some reason, he rummaged around in the desk, left the room, and returned a quarter of an hour later with a large dead chicken whose neck had been wrung. He placed the chicken on the briefcase and his right hand on the chicken, and intoned: “There won’t be any money.”
164 pages. RRP: £ 7.99 £ 6.39. Buy. In Bulgakov’s ‘Diaboliad’, the modest and unassuming office clerk Korotkov is summarily sacked for a trifling error from his job at the Main Central Depot of Match Materials and tries to seek out his newly assigned superior, responsible for his dismissal.
Full of invention, they display Bulgakov's breathtaking stylistic range, moving at dizzying speed from grotesque satire to science fiction, from the plainest realism to the most madcap fantasy....
