A Dead Man's Memoir - A Theatrical Novel

Zusatztext "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 Informationen zum Autor Mikhail Bulgakov Klappentext A new translation of one of the most popular satires on the Russian Revolution and Soviet society Best known for The Master and Margarita , Mikhail Bulgakov is one of twentieth-century Russia's most prominent novelists. A Dead Man's Memoir is a semi- autobiographical story about a writer who fails to sell his novel, then fails to commit suicide. When the writer's play is taken up for production in a theater, literary success beckons, but he is not prepared to reckon with the grotesquely inflated egos of the actors, directors, and theater managers. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Bromfield, Mikhail Bulgakov, Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov, Bulgakov Mikhail, Keith Gessen
• Assisted by: Andrew Bromfield (Editor), Bromfield Andrew (Editor), Keith Gessen (Introduction), Gessen Keith (Introduction), Andrew Bromfield (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.10.2007
• EAN: 9780140455144
• ISBN: 978-0-14-045514-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Classics, Fiction in translation, Classic fiction: general and literary