Black Snow: New Translation (Alma Classics): Mikhail Bulgakov - Softcover

Mikhail Bulgakov; Translated By Roger Cockrell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184749353X ISBN 13: 9781847493538

Publisher: Alma Classics, 2014

Synopsis

After being saved from a suicide attempt by 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 incompetent director Ivan Vasilyevich - absurdity gradually gives way to tragedy. Unpublished in Bulgakov's own lifetime, Black Snow (also known as A Theatrical Novel) - here presented in a new translation - is peppered with darkly comic set pieces and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.

Black Snow is part of Alma Classics's The Mikhail Bulgakov Collection which includes A Young Doctor's Notebook, A Dog's Heart, Black Snow, Diaboliad and Other Stories, Notes on a Cuff and Other Stories, The Fatal Eggs, The Life of Monsieur de Moliere, The Master and Margarita, The White Guard

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About this title

Review:

Cockrell's light touch often lifts the text on to a playful plane --Russia Beyond the Headlines

High quality, attractively produced and moderately priced --East-West Review

About the Author:

A trained doctor, Mikhail Bulgakov (1891 - 1940) became one of his era's most brilliant and daring writers. His career was plagued by Soviet censorship, and his masterpiece The Master and Margarita was never published in his lifetime.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alma Classics
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 184749353X
• ISBN 13: 9781847493538
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224