AANTEKENINGEN VAN EEN JONGE ARTS / BOELGAKOV

"Also based on Bulgakov's own life was Zapiski Iunovo Vracha ("Notes of a Young Doctor", 1925-1926), a collection of seven stories about a young doctor practicing in a rural village. In these stories, the young hero-doctor saves the life of a young girl mangled in a threshing machine (“Towel Embroidered With a Rooster”); is unable to save a young bride who suffers a skull fracture (“Snowstorm”); performs his first tracheotomy (“Steel Throat”); treats bullet wounds (“Lost Eye”); is faced with his first difficult labor and birth (“Baptism by Rotation”); battles against rampant venereal disease (“Starry Rash”) and the ignorance of the peasants, who, of course, can't read the directions on their medicine bottles (“Darkness of Egypt”)." (http://www.sovlit.com/bios/bulgakov.html)

Wat een afstand tot De Meester en Margarita !