Black snow : a theatrical novel / Mikhail Bulgakov ; translated by Roger Cockrell

By:

Bulgakov, Mikhail, 1891-1940 [author]

Contributor(s):

Cockrell, Roger [translator]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Russian Publication details: Surrey, England : Alma Classics, 2014.Description: xi, 239 pages : illustrations; 20 cm.ISBN:

9781847493538

Uniform titles:

Teatralʹnyĭ roman. English.

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

LOC classification:

PG3476.B78 T4313

Summary: 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 Unpublished in Bulgakov’s own lifetime, Black Snow is peppered with darkly comic set pieces and draws on its author’s own bitter experience as a playwright with the Moscow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.

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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Unpublished in Bulgakov’s own lifetime, Black Snow is peppered with darkly comic set pieces and draws on its author’s own bitter experience as a playwright with the Moscow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.