'Having found his niche at MatchMat, the quiet, gentle, fair-haired Korotkov had completely expunged from his soul the idea of the existence in the world of the so-called vicissitudes of fate'.

In Bulgakov's 'Diaboliad', the modest and unassuming office clerk Korotkov is summarily sacked for a trifling error from his job at the Main Central Depot of Match Materials, and tries to seek out his newly assigned superior, responsible for his dismissal. His quest through the labyrinth of Soviet bureaucracy takes on the increasingly surreal dimensions of a nightmare.

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Year: 1972

Condition: Good to very good softcover with some minor wear. (please see photos)

Diaboliad, and Other Stories by Mikhail Bulgakov, Indiana University Press, 1972 'SCARCE'