A Dead Man's Memoir: A Theatrical Novel
A new translation of one of the most popular satires on the Russian Revolution and Soviet society Best known for The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov is one of twentieth-century Russia's most prominent novelists. A Dead Man's Memoir is a semi- autobiographical story about a writer who fails...
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A new translation of one of the most popular satires on the Russian Revolution and Soviet society Best known for The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov is one of twentieth-century Russia's most prominent novelists. A Dead Man's Memoir is a semi- autobiographical story about a writer who fails to sell his novel, then fails to commit suicide. When the writer's play is taken up for production in a theater, literary success beckons, but he is not prepared to reckon with the grotesquely inflated egos of the actors, directors, and theater managers.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140455144 (0140455140)
Publish date: December 18th 2007
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Humor,
Literature,
Cultural,
20th Century,
Plays,
Theatre,
Russia,
Russian Literature,
Magical Realism
Mikhail Bulgakov must have had a thing for cats. He’s must have been like the Russian Edward Gorey or something because there are cats in this book. Satan, however, is of a different from than cat in this book. If Satan is in this book, he is the powers that control ...
my coverTranslated by Michael Glenny.Opening: On the 29th April Moscow was washed clean by a thunderstorm. The air was delightful; it mellowed the heart and made one want to start living again.First read twenty odd years ago - where does time go! When Maxudov's novel fails, he attempts suicide. Wh...
my coverTranslated by Michael Glenny.Opening: On the 29th April Moscow was washed clean by a thunderstorm. The air was delightful; it mellowed the heart and made one want to start living again.First read twenty odd years ago - where does time go!
ChronologyIntroduction & SourcesA Note on the TextFurther Reading--A Dead Man's Memoir (A Theatrical Novel)Notes
ChronologyIntroduction & SourcesA Note on the TextFurther Reading--A Dead Man's Memoir (A Theatrical Novel)Notes
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