A Country Doctor's NotebookBrilliant stories which show the growth of a novelist's mind, and the raw material which fed the wild surrealism of Bulgakov's later fiction. Translated by Michael Glenny With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty five year old Dr Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia which, in 1916 17, was still largely unaffected by such novelties as the motor car, the telephone, or electric light. How his alter ego copes (or fails to