Black Snow - Softcover

Reddin, Keith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822213710 ISBN 13: 9780822213710

Publisher: Dramatist's Play Service, 1993

Synopsis

When Maxudov's novel, fails, he attempts suicide. When that fails, he dramatizes his novel. To Maxudov's surprise -- and the resentment of literary Moscow -- the play is accepted by the legendary Independent Theater, and Maxudov plunges into a vortex of inflated egos. Each rehearsal, sees more and more sparks flying higher and higher ... and less and less chance of poor Maxudov's play ever being performed. Black Snow is the ultimate backstage novel, and a brilliant satire on Mikhail. Bulgakov's ten-year love-hate relationship with Stanislavsky, Method acting, and the Moscow Arts Theater.After a lifetime spent struggling against censorship, not least in the theater, Bulgakov died in 1940, not long after completing his masterpiece, The Master and Margarita. None of his major fiction was published during his lifetime.

About this title

Review:

"A masterpiece of black comedy" (Irish Times)

"The novel moves with mad exuberance" (Independent)

"Bulgakov, the first magical realist-is regarded as the Soviet writer who made the strongest impact on twentieth-century Western fiction" (Irish Times)

"A writer of fantastic genius" (Sunday Times)

Book Description:

A brilliant satire on Method Acting and the Moscow Arts Theatre, from the author of The Master and Margarita.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dramatist's Play Service
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0822213710
• ISBN 13: 9780822213710
• Binding: Paperback