A Young Doctor's Notebook

A Young Doctor's Notebook (Russian: «Записки юного врача» Zapiski yunogo vracha, literally, "A Young Doctor's Notes"), also known as A Country Doctor's Notebook, is a short story collection by the Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov. The stories were written in the 1920s and inspired by Bulgakov's experiences as a newly graduated young doctor in 1916-18, practicing in a small village hospital in Smolensk Governorate in revolutionary Russia. The stories initially appeared in Russian medical journals of the period and were later compiled by scholars into book form.

This article is about the short story collection. For the television miniseries, see A Young Doctor's Notebook (TV series).

The first English translation was done by Michael Glenny and was published by Harvill Press in 1975. A more recent translation (2011) has been done by Hugh Aplin under the Oneworld Classics imprint. The title of the Aplin translation is A Young Doctor's Notebook. The French translation was done by Paul Lequesne in 1994.

Stories

The list of stories in the Michael Glenny translation is as follows (in order):

  • "The Embroidered Towel"
  • "The Steel Windpipe"
  • "Black as Egypt's Night"
  • "Baptism by Rotation"
  • "The Speckled Rash"
  • "The Blizzard"
  • "The Vanishing Eye"
  • "Morphine" (not included in the original collection)
  • "The Murderer"

The Hugh Aplin translation also includes the short story "Morphine" but does not include "The Murderer".

Adaptations

References
  1. "A Young Doctor's Notebook: From the Operating Table to the Screen", The Guardian, 4 December 2012
  • Sokolov, Boris (2000). "Записки юного врача". Булгаковская энциклопедия (in Russian). Локид, Миф. p. 588.
  • Entry on FantLab (in Russian)
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