Michail Bulgakov, “Era Maggio”

To the delight of those who are not necessarily interested in the latest award-winning novel, but love the good smell of a dusty library — a tiny gem of world literature.

“It was May” is a short text by Mikhail Bulgakov, (1891–1940) the author of “The Master and Margarita”, “Dog’s Heart” and “Fatal Eggs”. A doctor, he left the profession, too subject to government pressure, to devote himself to writing, but ended up shredded in the Soviet machinery. Alive perhaps only thanks to Stalin’s personal sympathy, he was always disliked by the regime, all his works opposed and many…