Description
| Product ID: | 9781847493538 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Black Snow |
| Authors: | Author: Mikhail Bulgakov, Roger Cockrell |
| Page Count: | 224 |
| Subjects: | Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction (pre c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Unpublished in Bulgakov's own lifetime, Black Snow (also known as A Theatrical Novel) - here presented in a new translation - is peppered with darkly comic set pieces and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. 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Unpublished in Bulgakov’s own lifetime, Black Snow is peppered with darkly comic set pieces and draws on its author’s own bitter experience as a playwright with the Moscow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. |
| Imprint Name: | Alma Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Alma Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2014-06-15 |