Notes from a young doctor

Mikhail Bulgakov around 1935

Notes by a young doctor ( Russian Записки юного врача , Sapiski junowo wratscha ) are seven stories by the Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov , which appeared in the Moscow magazine Medizinski rabotnik and in the Leningrad magazine Krasnaja panorama from 1925 to 1926 . The short stories are colored autobiographically. The author worked as a doctor from September 29, 1916 to September 18, 1917 in Nikolskoye village hospital ( Sychovka district in Smolensk governorate ).

contents

• The towel with the tap ( Russian Полотенце с петухом , Polotenze s petuchom ),
• The steel throat ( Russian Стальное горло , Stalnoje gorlo ),
• Baptism of fire through phrase ( Russian Крещение поворотом , Kreschtschenije poworotom ),
• The snowstorm ( Russian Вьюга , Vjuga ),
• Egyptian darkness ( Russian Тьма египетская , Tma jegipetskaja ),
• The missing eye ( Russian Пропавший глаз , Propawschi glas ),
• A rash like a constellation ( Russian Звёздная сыпь , Svjosdnaja syp ).

Adaptations

Film adaptations

• 1991, Belarusfilm ( Belarus ): Recordings of a young doctor by Michail Jakschen with Andrei Nikitinskich in the title role.
• 2008, Russia : Morphine by Alexei Balabanow with Leonid Bitschewin in the title role.
• 2012, UK : A Young Doctor's Notebook by Kenton Allen with Daniel Radcliffe in the title role.

theatre

• 2007, Kiev , Theater am Podole, diary of a young doctor by Vitaly Malachov.
• 2016, St. Petersburg, Masterskaya Theater (workshop), notes of a young doctor by Grigory Kozlov.

German-language editions

Output used:

• Notes from a young doctor. Translated from the Russian by Thomas Reschke . Pp. 7-105 in Ralf Schröder (ed.): Bulgakow. The red crown. Autobiographical stories and diaries. Volk & Welt, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-353-00944-2 (= Vol. 5: Collected Works (13 Vols.))

Web links

• The text
  • Wikisource Записки юного врача (Булгаков) (Russian)
  • online at Lib.ru (Russian)
  • online at bulgakov.lit-info.ru (Russian)
• Entry in the Laboratory of Fantastics (Russian)
• Notes in the Bulgakov encyclopedia bulgakov.ru (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Russian Medizinski rabotnik - about employees in the health service
2. ↑ Russian Красная панорама - Red Panorama ( Memento of the original from May 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Russian Nikolskoje
4. ↑ Russian notes of a young doctor (film)
5. ↑ Russian morphine (film)