When Soviet censors approved Mikhail Bulgakov’s stage adaptation of Don Quixote, they were unaware that they were sanctioning a subtle but powerful criticism of Stalinist rule.The volume’s introduction provides background for Bulgakov’s adaptation and compares Bulgakov with Cervantes and the twentieth-century Russian work with the seventeenth century Spanish work.

Introduction by: Margarita Marinova, Scott Pollard
Translated by: Margarita Marinova