Diary of a Dead Man

Bulgakov recounts dreaming of witnessing this murder and says he died in the dream, not literally, as the narrator continues his story, screaming at the criminals and murderers, then rushing with his rifle to kill himself before the Bilira men came and finished him, but the rifle jammed, and he woke up screaming in terror. In Bulgakov's situation at the time, are these efforts and attempts - all this work and re-work, striving to dismantle tragedy with tragedy - stemming from knowledge and self-awareness? I would say self-knowledge and self-awareness, and between knowledge itself and the active pursuit of intellectual honesty. For a "great writer in my opinion like Bulgakov, it was not knowledge itself that drove him to work, but the struggle towards liberating the idea, for doubt and hesitation in certainty, and the struggle to understand this complex awareness in the face of many frustrations and arduous processes he went through in his attempt to get a chance to continue, made this work, most generated with tragedies, simply capable of finally pushing the work to the reader's scrutiny, analysis, and wisdom.

• Category: Translated Novels

• Number of pages: 237 pages