Black snow : a theatrical novel
Bulgakov, Mikhail 1891-1940
Black snow : a theatrical novel / Mikhail Bulgakov ; translated by Roger Cockrell - Surrey, England : Alma Classics, 2014. - xi, 239 pages : illustrations; 20 cm.
After being saved from a suicide attempt by the appearance of a literary editor, the journalist and failed novelist Sergei Maxudov has a book suddenly accepted for stage adaptation at a prestigious venue and finds himself propelled into Moscow’s theatrical world. In a cut-throat environment tainted by Soviet politics, censorship and egomania – epitomized by the arrogant and tyrannical director Ivan Vasilyevich – mayhem gradually gives way to absurdity.
Unpublished in Bulgakov’s own lifetime, Black Snow is peppered with darkly comic set pieces and draws on its author’s own bitter experience as a playwright with the Moscow Arts Theatre, showcasing his inimitable gift for shrewd observation and razor-sharp satire.
9781847493538
Theater--Fiction--Russia
Authors, Russian--Fiction
Russia--Fiction
READING IN ENGLISH
Russian literature
Literary classics
PG3476.B78 / T4313
Black snow : a theatrical novel / Mikhail Bulgakov ; translated by Roger Cockrell - Surrey, England : Alma Classics, 2014. - xi, 239 pages : illustrations; 20 cm.
After being saved from a suicide attempt by the appearance of a literary editor, the journalist and failed novelist Sergei Maxudov has a book suddenly accepted for stage adaptation at a prestigious venue and finds himself propelled into Moscow’s theatrical world. In a cut-throat environment tainted by Soviet politics, censorship and egomania – epitomized by the arrogant and tyrannical director Ivan Vasilyevich – mayhem gradually gives way to absurdity.
Unpublished in Bulgakov’s own lifetime, Black Snow is peppered with darkly comic set pieces and draws on its author’s own bitter experience as a playwright with the Moscow Arts Theatre, showcasing his inimitable gift for shrewd observation and razor-sharp satire.
9781847493538
Theater--Fiction--Russia
Authors, Russian--Fiction
Russia--Fiction
READING IN ENGLISH
Russian literature
Literary classics
PG3476.B78 / T4313
