A Dead Man's Memoir: A Theatrical Novel (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Bulgakov, Mikhail

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140455140 ISBN 13: 9780140455144

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2007

Synopsis

This is Bulgakov's semi-autobiographical story of a writer who fails to sell his novel and fails to commit suicide. When his play is taken up by the theatre, literary success beckons, but he has reckoned without the grotesquely inflated egos of the actors, directors and theatre managers.

About this title

Review:

"The book is gentle in tone if fierce in substance."
-The New York Times Book Review

"Bulgakov is the first magical realist."
-Craig Raine, author of T.S. Eliot

About the Author:

Mikhail Bulgakov was born in Kiev in May 1891. His sympathetic portrayal of White characters in his stories, in the plays The Days of the Turbins (The White Guard), which enjoyed great success at the Moscow Arts Theatre in 1926, and Flight (1927), and his satirical treatment of the officials of the New Economic Plan, led to growing criticism, which became violent after the play The Purple Island. He also wrote a brilliant biography of his literary hero, Jean-Baptiste Molière, but The Master and Margarita is generally considered his masterpiece. Fame, at home and abroad, was not to come until a quarter of a century after his death at Moscow in 1940.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0140455140
• ISBN 13: 9780140455144
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Bromfield Andrew