Black Snow

Paperback

Main Details

Title Black Snow
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov
Translated by Roger Cockrell
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback
Pages:224
Category/GenreClassic fiction (pre c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9781847493538
ClassificationsDewey:891.7342
Audience
General
Illustrations illustrations

Publishing Details

Publisher Alma Books Ltd
Imprint Alma Classics
Publication Date 15 June 2014
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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 Unpublished in Bulgakov's own lifetime, Black Snow (also known as A Theatrical Novel) - here presented in a new translation - is peppered with darkly comic set pieces and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.

Author Biography

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.