Tribunal - A Courtly Comedy in Three Acts

Vladimir Voinovich's Tribunal: A Courtly Comedy in Three Acts is a wildly satiric send-up of the 1960s/1970s Soviet show-trials by a Soviet dissident who was sometimes called 'Russia's greatest living satirist.' Voinovich is also the author of Moscow 2042 and The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin.

List of contents

Introduction: Please Allow Me to Introduce ... Vladimir Voinovich's Tribunal and Soviet Samizdat Writing; Dramatis Personae; First Act; First Intermission; Second Act; Second Intermission; Third Act; Index of Names.

About the author

Eric D. Meyer is an independent scholar with a Ph.D. from the UW-Madison (1991). He is the author of Questioning Martin Heidegger (University Press, 2103).

Summary

Vladimir Voinovich’s Tribunal: A Courtly Comedy in Three Acts is a wildly satiric send-up of the 1960s/1970s Soviet show-trials by a Soviet dissident who was sometimes called ‘Russia’s greatest living satirist.’ Voinovich is also the author of Moscow 2042 and The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin.

Product details

• Authors: Vladimir Voinovich, Voinovich Vladimir
• Assisted by: Meyer Eric D. (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781785276682
• ISBN: 978-1-78527-668-2
• No. of pages: 132
• Series: Anthem Series on Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Russia, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, USSR, Soviet Union, Plays, Playscripts, HISTORY / Russia / General, DRAMA / Russian & Soviet, Plays, playscripts, drama, Drama; Literary Criticism; History