Morfina

by Mikhail Bulgakov, Silvia Sichel (Editor), Michail Bulgakov

Il racconto “Morfina”, che si ispira ad un’esperienza personale dello stesso Michail Bulgakov, apparve per la prima volta nel
1927, sulla rivista «Il lavoratore medico». Dopo aver assunto la morfina al fine di calmare una forte allergia, Bulgakov aveva
infatti potuto sperimentare sulla propria pelle la tragica dipendenza dal farmaco, arrivando a farsi sino a due punture al giorno.
Il racconto servì dunque allo scrittore anche per esorcizzare definitivamente quella penosa esperienza. Fatto sta che Bulgakov
teneva tantissimo a questa sua opera, che, come è stato detto, forse mascherava anche i suoi sentimenti nei confronti della
Rivoluzione d’Ottobre; e che, certamente, rappresenta uno dei racconti più perfetti del grande scrittore.

79 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 4, 2025

About the author

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (Russian: Михаил Булгаков) was a Russian writer, medical doctor, and playwright. His novel The Master and Margarita , published posthumously, has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.

He also wrote the novel The White Guard and the plays Ivan Vasilievich, Flight (also called The Run ), and The Days of the Turbins . He wrote mostly about the horrors of the Russian Civil War and about the fate of Russian intellectuals and officers of the Tsarist Army caught up in revolution and Civil War.

Some of his works ( Flight , all his works between the years 1922 and 1926, and others) were banned by the Soviet government, and personally by Joseph Stalin, after it was decided by them that they "glorified emigration and White generals". On the other hand, Stalin loved The Days of the Turbins (also called The Turbin Brothers ) very much and reportedly saw it at least 15 times.