With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia which, in 1916-17, was still largely unaffected by such novelties as the motor car, the telephone or electric light. How his alter-ego copes (or fails to cope) with the new and often appalling responsibilities of a lone docto...
With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia which, in 1916-17, was still largely unaffected by such novelties as the motor car, the telephone or electric light. How his alter-ego copes (or fails to cope) with the new and often appalling responsibilities of a lone doctor in a vast country practice - on the eve of Revolution - is described in Bulgakov's delightful blend of candid realism and imaginative exuberance.
Oh, I can't express the despair in which I returned home along, because I left Pelageya Ivanovna to care for the mother. I was tossed about in the sledge in the abating snowstorm, gloomy forest looked on reproachfully, hopelessly, desperately. I felt myself defeated, broken, crushed by cruel Fate. It had tossed me into these backwoods and forced to struggle alone, without any support or instructions. What unbelievable difficulties I was obliged to endure. I might be brought any tricky or complex case whatsoever, more often than not surgical, and I had to face up to it with my unshaven face and defeat it. And if you didn't defeat it, then suffer torment, as now, when you were dragged over a bumpy road, while the little corpse of a baby remained behind with its mummy. (查看原文)
18th May
A sultry night. A thunderstorm is brewing, black storm clouds building up beyond the forest. A moment ago there came a pale warning flash of lightning. The storm has begun.
A book is open in front of me and this is what it has to say about the symptoms of morphine withdrawal:
‘… morbid anxiety, a nervous depressed condition, irritability, weakening of the memory, occasional hallucinations and a mild impairment of consciousness …’
I have not experienced any hallucinations, but I can only say that the rest of this description is dull, pedestrian and totally inadequate. ‘Depressed condition’ indeed! Having suffered from this appalling malady, I hereby enjoin all doctors to be more compassionate toward their patients. What overtakes the addict deprived of morphine for a mere hour o... (查看原文)
正文讀的是 Alma Classics 出版、由 Hugh Aplin 翻譯的版本，比企鵝的這一版年代新很多，語言上自然也比較貼近當代的文風，還有著非常詳盡的注解；而企鵝這一版的優點，大概就是多了一篇 The Murderer 吧……看譯者 Michael Glenny 的譯序當中大概牽扯了一些原文版權問題，而故事本身也挺有意思，但卻不是因爲情節，而是文中可看出作者布爾加科夫彼時對待布爾什維克黨人...正文讀的是 Alma Classics 出版、由 Hugh Aplin 翻譯的版本，比企鵝的這一版年代新很多，語言上自然也比較貼近當代的文風，還有著非常詳盡的注解；而企鵝這一版的優點，大概就是多了一篇 The Murderer 吧……看譯者 Michael Glenny 的譯序當中大概牽扯了一些原文版權問題，而故事本身也挺有意思，但卻不是因爲情節，而是文中可看出作者布爾加科夫彼時對待布爾什維克黨人還是頗懷著一股希望的，和幾乎同一時期（1920s中期）寫作《狗心》時對他們極盡諷刺之力截然相反，很值得細品……(展开)
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1 有用 幾何糖 2019-07-30 22:06:49
正文讀的是 Alma Classics 出版、由 Hugh Aplin 翻譯的版本，比企鵝的這一版年代新很多，語言上自然也比較貼近當代的文風，還有著非常詳盡的注解；而企鵝這一版的優點，大概就是多了一篇 The Murderer 吧……看譯者 Michael Glenny 的譯序當中大概牽扯了一些原文版權問題，而故事本身也挺有意思，但卻不是因爲情節，而是文中可看出作者布爾加科夫彼時對待布爾什維克黨人... 正文讀的是 Alma Classics 出版、由 Hugh Aplin 翻譯的版本，比企鵝的這一版年代新很多，語言上自然也比較貼近當代的文風，還有著非常詳盡的注解；而企鵝這一版的優點，大概就是多了一篇 The Murderer 吧……看譯者 Michael Glenny 的譯序當中大概牽扯了一些原文版權問題，而故事本身也挺有意思，但卻不是因爲情節，而是文中可看出作者布爾加科夫彼時對待布爾什維克黨人還是頗懷著一股希望的，和幾乎同一時期（1920s中期）寫作《狗心》時對他們極盡諷刺之力截然相反，很值得細品…… (展开)
0 有用 生煎馄饨秃子 2012-10-12 23:35:39
终于撸完，通篇医学词汇对一个外行来说真的够呛。一共9个故事，其中有黑喜剧、惊悚以及涉及到毒瘾的较黑暗的心理斗争，那些讲述偏远落后地区人们对医疗常识无知的部分又好笑又讽刺，只能感叹没文化真可怕。
0 有用 P 2016-06-15 11:12:24
Cold yet warm.
0 有用 Cal 2021-11-15 00:59:55
【她像一条忠实的狗，跟随在我身后。】【我活像条断腿的狗爬过】
0 有用 在宇宙中 2021-08-30 00:18:53
译者序讲得很精彩，年轻的医生感到自己与病人之间仿佛有五百年的代沟，这也无意中证明了苏联后来的扫盲教育卓有成效。我觉得可以补充的是，年轻医生的紧张、怀疑、对暴露自己是个生手的恐惧、对同事的欣赏和感激，这些都是指向自身的，他对自我的谴责绝对不比对病人的谴责少。