Notes of the deceased (theater novel) Deviliad. Fatal eggs. Secret friend

About the unfinished "theatrical novel" Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov (1891-1940) so much and so clearly said that it is worth limiting himself to several quotes. "The sharpness and readiness for mockery beats from under the pen ... a lively dialogue, a lot of dialogue, and he splashes with laughter" (Alexander Solzhenitsyn) “This is the tragic theme of Bulgakov - the artist in his clash anyway with someone - Liuy Li, with Kabala, with Nikolai or the director "(Elena Bulgakova) "The World of" Theater Roman "with all its vices, with all its" backstage ruthlessness" and" acute personal interests" (these are the words of Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko) was washed by the author’s love, the very love of the Creator that accepts and blesses life in all its forms And varieties, from the ciliates in the form of Demyan Kuzmich to such a complex human education, which is represented by the brilliant actor Ivan Vasilievich "(Anatoly Smelyansky) In general, it makes sense to doubt the veracity of the words of the author, which he brought into the preface to the novel: Neither the theaters, nor such people that are bred in the work of the late, there were no and there were no. Were. And there is.

The accompanying article by Violetta Gudkova

Violetta Vladimirovna Gudkova (born in 1949) - historian of the theater, literary critic, textologist, leading researcher at the Department of the Theater of the State Institute of Art of Art. Candidate of Art of History. The author of the book "Time and Theater Mikhail Bulgakov". Compiled and commentator "Book of Farewell" Yuri Olesha. As a theater and literary critic, he collaborates with the magazines "UFO", "Banner", "Friendship of Peoples", "Theater", "Moscow Observer"