Morphine (new)
Morphine is a news of the Russian writer Mikhaïl Boulgakov. It is presented in the form of a newspaper held by the hero, a fictitious character. It was published in December 1927 in the review Meditsinkii Rabotnik ( the Medical Worker )
Synopsis
It is about the newspaper of a young doctor, Doctor Poliakov, affected just after the revolution at a station in a rural private clinic. It will be there the only doctor, assisted of Anna, a devoted nurse. It is reached of an evil which is never named in the account, but of which only the Morphine manages to mitigate the effects. To this is added insulation and loneliness, new for this man accustomed to the big city where it followed his studies. Poliakov falls then into the Toxicomanie under the impotent glance from Anna which sees increasing the morphine orders for the dispensary. Soon, the narrator will test the pangs of the lack and will sink in the distress and the madness whose only violent death will leave it.
Comments
Although not being autobiographical as well as the Accounts of a young doctor , this news is very inspired by the life of its author who exerted medicine between 1916 and 1920 under conditions close to those lived by Doctor Poliakov. Morphine takes again part of a very first novel written by Boulgakov with the beginning of the year 1920 pennies the provisional title of Niedroug ( Maladie or Infirmité in Russian) which was destroyed by the author.
Quotations
- It would be excellent that any doctor has the possibility of trying out a great number of drugs on itself. Its comprehension of their effects would be very different.
- The Cocaine, it is the devil in a bottle!