Mikhaíl Bulgákov - Morfina

Bulgakov's most autobiographical work, written in 1917, portrays in an incisive and raw style the benefits and harms of morphine addiction.

In the confines of rural Russia, a doctor who has lost his taste for life finds in the "white crystals" the bliss that allows him to temporarily sublimate his anguish. But as time goes by, morphine proves to be much less blissful. In a black notebook, Dr. Sergei Poliakov jots down the troubled existential confessions that unfold regardless of the historical context...