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Overall, I really enjoyed this insight into the life of a doctor in this time period, as well as Bulgakov's wonderful way with words. I'd like to get a look at that edition sometime to see if I prefer Aplin's translation to Glenny's. View all 4 comments. I cannot imagine, at age 24, being faced with a woman having a difficult labor and having to do something to prevent the death of the mother and the baby.

And can even less imagine being the mother, looking at this greenhorn and thinking, "This is the guy they send to save me?

And to face these difficulties in a remote, snowy village in the days before the internet or even telephones? That said, there was I cannot imagine, at age 24, being faced with a woman having a difficult labor and having to do something to prevent the death of the mother and the baby.

That said, there was no hint in this book of the wildly imaginative writer Bulgakov was to become. We are getting the recipe here rather than the soup.

As one would expect from a year-old, we hear some complaining about how inconvenient some of the patients are for him, with little thought to how desperately his patients would prefer not to be patients at all. And finally, we have a tale of a colleague's downward spiral and eventual death, a topic visited much more beautifully in Abraham Verghese's The Tennis Partner. I enjoyed reading this. It is neither the finest of Bulgakov's works nor the finest memoir of a junior doctor.

But it's certainly the first exposure I've had to what junior doctors faced in rural Russia around the time of the Revolution, and well worth reading for that alone. Part fiction, part memoir, this anthology of stories, gives the reader a peek into a young doctor's mind and initial years of life, who is skeptical about his capabilities in the profession.

How was anyone to know? You made a point of telling me the man was intelligent. At midnight. With Bulgakov, you simply can never go wrong. His wit laced with humor leaves such an impact that lasts much longer after finishing his book; and that is the case with most of his books. A pure genius, that man. Aug 25, Bettie rated it really liked it Recommended to Bettie by: Christine.

Shelves: autobiography-memoir , film-only , medical-eew , recreational-drugs , e-book , ipad , translation , published , doo-lally , slavic. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I tried reading "The Master and Margarita" quite a while back and had to give up because of the strange style of the author.

I'm glad to say that in his short stories about a country doctor Mikhail Bulgakov prevails, at least in my eyes, as a true talent. I did not find the chapter about Morphine as enticing though and the finishing story I tried reading "The Master and Margarita" quite a while back and had to give up because of the strange style of the author. I did not find the chapter about Morphine as enticing though and the finishing story about the Murderer was interesting enough but the true strength of this book, in my opinion, is the patients and procedures described in the early, unsure year of the doctor.

Feb 28, David rated it really liked it. An excellent, albeit too short collection of both real and embellished tales of Bulgakov's often utterly hilarious trials and travails as a country doctor.

As a nurse, it was particularly enjoyable to read about his neuroses about his inexperience as a doctor and fear of being confronted with a difficult case. His country experiences were certainly wild, with sleigh rides through blizzards chased by wolves and more. Near the end there were two stories of a particular more somber nature; one of An excellent, albeit too short collection of both real and embellished tales of Bulgakov's often utterly hilarious trials and travails as a country doctor.

Near the end there were two stories of a particular more somber nature; one of another doctor and his battle with morphine addiction which is particularly sad, and the final tale of a doctor who was pressed into service under the Whites while the Bolsheviks were taking Kiev.

Not exactly the Bulgakov I came to know through the Master and Margarita, and Heart of a Dog, but definitely a good read! Feb 14, Caroline-not-getting-updates rated it really liked it Shelves: fiction-in-translation , russian. Graphic and atmospheric stories about a new MD sent to practice alone in a remote rural clinic during World War I. He immediately realizes that his education didn't prepare him for the everyday cases that arrive endlessly: threshing accidents, difficult births, diphtheria, syphilis etc etc.

He relies on gut instinct and the advice of three assistants who have worked in the clinic for many years with many different doctors. Gradually he acquires much of the knowledge he needs.

But he is so isolate Graphic and atmospheric stories about a new MD sent to practice alone in a remote rural clinic during World War I. But he is so isolated. There are so many blizzards. These are fictionalized stories, based on his experiences, so it's hard to tell what really happened. Did he really shoot wolves from a sleigh as they chased him back home after a trip through a blizzard to the site of a tragedy?

In any case, the loneliness, cold and exhaustion are vividly conveyed. Even though Bulgakov was engaged in writing experimental works like Heart of a Dog and Master and Margarita while he turned out these stories for publication in two journals, that fantasy doesn't play a role here except in one story about a newly-minted rural doctor like himself who gets addicted to morphine.

Then the doctor's journal, describing his physical cravings and reactions, show how Bulgakov can paint an exotic experience. For the most part, though, they are almost sentimental snapshots of the life of an educated man among the peasants, in that very long vein of Russian writing.

Into the darkness of the Russian winter This collection of stories brings the reader to the realm of in the midst of rural Russia. It turns out that as a young man Bulgakov served as a doctor in the country provinces close to Smolensk and this collection of stories were written an early period of his life published in medical journals.

I did not quite know what to expect. I adored his Master and Margarita with its surreal atmosphere and story line. However, this was a delightful reading Into the darkness of the Russian winter This collection of stories brings the reader to the realm of in the midst of rural Russia. However, this was a delightful reading experience.

It is really a series of encounters with patients from the perspective of a bright young doctor stranded in the middle of nowhere. I was taken by its realism, vivid description and humanity.

The translation by Glenny was seemingly flawless as I never felt the awkwardness of reading a translated work. In contrast, I simply found great joy being in the company of the doctor and his inner world as he struggled with case after case. Perhaps it is the immediateness that pulls me into these stories. Highly recommended to Russian lit enthusiasts. Dec 08, Toni rated it it was amazing Shelves: classics. Polyakov and all the operations he performed.

Bulgakov definitely provoked my imagination and I pictured the scenes quite clearly. Polyakov as a young district doctor. I believe this collection will appeal to other students like me, and even colleagues, who will surely find out and recognize all the agony, doubt, fear and insecurities of the young, newly graduate Dr.

Polyakov, who is cast directly from the university bench to practice. He is the only ray of hope for the peasants and has to deal not only with every possible disease, but also with the patients and their relatives, which is never an easy task. We have a wonderful description of the Russian reality, the life of a novice doctor and in the second part of the book - the novel "Morphine" we can see and understand the plight of the morphinists.

However this can not be delivered easily on paper, but Bulgakov manages to deliver. He produces a picture, that describes the degradation of both the outer and the inner world of Polyakov, which is quite shocking and realistic, to be passed over lightly. Morphine, although it is used less often now, it is still the most efficient, but dangerous painkiller - dosis sola facit venenum.

But one minor habit does not make morfinist, right? Is it right, though? Devil in a bottle. Cocaine is devil in a bottle. There was ice rain where I live today. Meaning that there was subzero temperature and at the same time it was raining. It turned all the streets into skating rinks instantly. It was literally impossible to walk. I walked the dog and did it in a true penguin fashion - hands stretched to the sides, feet wide apart, taking tiny clumsy steps. But in the end, it all turned out well - I didn't fall and made it home safely.

The comforting feeling of a tense situation turning out well at the end is pres There was ice rain where I live today. The comforting feeling of a tense situation turning out well at the end is present in all the stories in Mikhail Bulgakov's A Country Doctor's Notebook as well. There is a lot of tension but a lot of happy endings as well. It is about a young doctor who has just gotten his school certificate and is on his first post in a godforsaken village in deep rural Russia.

There isn't even electricity. Bulgakov himself was trained to be a doctor and worked as one for a short while so this, I assume, is to some extent autobiographical. It is a short story collection with a heartfelt, a bit satirical but still warm humour.

Somewhat similar to another country doctor - a veterinarian James Herriot who's books are among my favourites. Bulgakov takes it a step further of course. There are plenty of graphic details and the setting isn't picturesque winding English country roads but a merciless Russian winter.

I read this book during a winter weekend spent in a simple little cabin, in a small Old Believer's village near the Russian border and it was perfection. The writing is practically faultless. In just pages I felt so much for the young hesitant doctor.

Always doubting his abilities, sweating over whether a knock on the door will be the much-feared "hernia patient", always overworked but still reading until late at night to get better at his craft. The story about facing the blizzard in the pitch-black night to get to a patient was just unforgettable.

A wonderful wonderful book, filled with much empathy, action, plot twists, humour, tension and above all hope for human nature. Recommended to even those rare creatures who didn't like The Master and Margarita. Apr 10, Ian rated it it was amazing Shelves: fiction , 5-star-fiction , russia , short-stories. A marvellous collection of 9 short stories by Mikhail Bulgakov, the first seven of which are sufficiently closely linked to be read as chapters of a novel.

Bulgakov is best known for his acknowledged classic "The Master and Margarita," but he originally trained as a doctor. These stories are I believe to be treated as fiction, but were "inspired" by his real life experience of being sent from his home in Kiev to a remote country district in the Smolensk region in As the preface to the book A marvellous collection of 9 short stories by Mikhail Bulgakov, the first seven of which are sufficiently closely linked to be read as chapters of a novel.

As the preface to the book points out, this move was in many ways the equivalent of travelling back in time several centuries.

Bulgakov moved from the world of electricity, shops, theatres, cinemas and science to a pre-literate, pre-industrial society dominated by religion and folk belief; where it could take 24 hours to travel the 32 miles to the nearest town, and where the inhabitants kept the same hours as the sun. The first seven of the stories reveal the author engaged in a double struggle, firstly against the hostility and superstition of the local peasants, and secondly against the self-doubt of a 24 year old pitched straight from the classroom into being the sole doctor in the area, responsible for diagnosing and treating every possible condition, and without a single colleague with whom he can consult.

Each tale involves a different case and each is exciting in its own way. The last two stories are somewhat different in feel, with one providing a vivid description of morphine addiction. Bulgakov was himself a morphine addict for a period, his addiction having begun after he was severely wounded in WWI. In the book he casts another doctor as the addict, with the main character reading the addict's diary, but it is clear the story is written by someone who knows only too well what he is talking about.

I am going to have to read more of this guy's work! If you take a look at my 'literary classic' shelf you'll find a lot of three star and under books. Nabokov, Hesse, Baldwin, Conrad et al have all fallen under the label of 'literary classic' which, for me, has come to signify a dreary and boring book full of themes that I won't understand. Luckily, that wasn't the case with A Young Doctor's Notebook.

In fact it reminded me strongly of my all-time favourite non-fiction series All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot. Both books were written as semi-autobiographical books or series, in Herriot's case , following the author's journey through life in their chosen profession and both feature hilarious stories of the author's attempts to care for their patients. Their crazy superstitions, the incredible difficulty of travelling through the Russian winter in nothing but a horse-pulled sled, the 'cutting-edge' treatments that would today be considered to not be a treatment at all.

Reading about life in the medical system of early 20th century Russia was fascinating, and a little terrifying. The conditions and diseases that are now considered commonplace and easily treatable, and were even in as long as you weren't in rural Russia, were death sentences when you had to travel for many hours or more, depending on the weather to reach a hospital.

Most of my family have some type of auto-immune disease - diabetes, colitis, hypothyroidism - with diabetes I wouldn't have survived this long and my parents would have lived much more painful lives if we had been living through the era that Bulgakov wrote about.

Thank goodness for truly modern medicine and the advances the scientists continue to make. Oh to be a doctor in rural apparently was not a good thing because the people would not listen when you tried to tell them about STDs, in particular, syphilis Oh, to be a patient in rural Russia where doctors come after graduating and having no experience. IT is at time poignant and at times very funny.

It feels very true. It should be noted that if you have seen the ser Oh to be a doctor in rural apparently was not a good thing because the people would not listen when you tried to tell them about STDs, in particular, syphilis Oh, to be a patient in rural Russia where doctors come after graduating and having no experience. It should be noted that if you have seen the series, this book contains several of the cases that are used in the first season.

It also lacks the magical realism flair of the series though Bulgakov himself would use magic realism. Reading has been slow, the days have been exceedingly fast, the nights, not long enough to make up for the life missed in the days spent working, felt like page-breaks. It starts to snow at night and it looks like this winter just has enough power to keep with it throughout the day. So here's what I do, I thought, here's what I do, I'm going to grab a book that looks and feels just like the landscape outside my window - chilling.

And so A Young Doctor's Notebook moved from a shelf where it spent Reading has been slow, the days have been exceedingly fast, the nights, not long enough to make up for the life missed in the days spent working, felt like page-breaks. And so A Young Doctor's Notebook moved from a shelf where it spent the last 10 years to my bedside table, and then it was over one winter evening. Like a dream. Don't get confused by the dates or Bulgavkov's mystical fame: it's still very much the Russian 19th century novel we know from Pushkin and the Tolstoy.

The original uses the same words and constructs, showing that Bulgakov, a novice writer and a great admirer of the classics hadn't spent much time looking for inspiration. Even the premise of a young, promising, educated man facing some extraordinary conditions sounds all too familiar.

But oh was it good. Razor-sharp, neurotic, bleak, not shy of showing the clash of cultures and the shock one would inevitably face when stuck in a hospital in the middle of nowhere with barely literate, but oh so alive peasants. That is, alive unless one accidentally kills them with a shaking hand during a surgery gone wrong. A must read if you ever doubted yourself, messed up or had to look for a solution under an extreme amount of pressure.

A must read if you hadn't. I was pleasantly surprised! I found this while browsing an online book shop. And I thought the summary sounded interesting, so I ordered it.

I saw the first season and enjoyed it so much. I stopped before continuing on with season 2, cause I wanted to read the book first. Next day I get my book order, I finish the book in 2 settings. And it's now one of my favorite books. It was very short. The SlideShare family just got bigger.

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Empath Up! Views Total views. Set up a giveaway. About the Author Mikhail Bulgakov was a Russian playwright, novelist, and physician best known for his satirical z, The Master and Margarita.

These nine short stories follow the early years in the career of a newly qualified doctor, who is sent to work English bultakov Amazon Inspire Digital Educational Resources. He describes his colleagues, his challenges, his triumphs — and it is as though we were there doctoe him. He knows he has a lot to learn, but does very well and earns the respect of his co-workers and the people in the community.

Mikhail Bulgakov, the amazing Russian writer of The Master and Margarita fame, was a medical doctor by training. Tried looking up on Wikipedia to work out why he was injecting people with camphor, which I only connect with killing moths. There is horror in the scourge of disease itself — whole families laid waste by syphilis as has been the case more recently with AIDS in some parts of the world — and in both some of the folk remedies. Shopbop Designer Fashion Brands.

Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Share your thoughts with other customers. The conditions and era in which this new doctor worked were challenging, to say the least. I felt cold sweat running along my spinal column when I thought about hernias. While the first part of this short book paints a vivid picture of rural life in pre-revolutionary Russia and the experience of an inexperienced country doctor establishing life amid desolation, it goes downhill from there.

Somehow it is dealt with, a solution awkwardly put together, but it jangles the nerves. Would you like to tell us about a lower price? A most bulgakog look into the life of a new and inexperienced doctor and the tools and potions he had to use. Return to Book Page.