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24%OFFMikhail Bulgakov - Black Snow - 9780099479321 - V9780099479321
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Black Snow

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Description for Black Snow Paperback. A satire by the author of "The Master and Margarita" on his ten-year love-hate relationship with Stanislavsky, Method-acting and the Moscow Arts Theatre. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 142.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY TERRY GILLIAM When Maxudov's bid to take his own life fails, he dramatises the novel whose failure provoked the suicide attempt. To the resentment of literary Moscow, his play is accepted by the legendary Independent Theatre and Maxudov plunges into a vortex of inflated egos. With each rehearsal more sparks fly and the chances of the play being ready to perform recede. Black Snow is the ultimate back-stage novel and a brilliant satire by the author of The Master and Margarita on his ten-year love-hate relationship with Stanislavsky, Method-acting and the Moscow Arts ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099479321
SKU
V9780099479321
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99-50

About Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891 - 1940) was born and educated in Kiev where he graduated as a doctor in 1916. He rapidly abandoned medicine to write some of the greatest Russian literature of this century. After a lifetime at odds with the stultifying Soviet regime, he died impoverished and blind in 1940, shortly after completing his masterpiece, The Master and Margarita. ... Read more

Reviews for Black Snow
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

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