Morphine

"Morphine" is an autobiographical novella by Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the form of a diary kept by a young doctor who became addicted to morphine. The work is based on the author's personal experience—he himself struggled with morphine addiction in 1917–1918 while working as a rural district doctor. The novella reveals the psychological portrait of a person gradually deteriorating under the influence of drug addiction and depicts the tragedy of an intellectual during a pivotal historical period.