TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Bulgakov, Mikhail
AU  - Cockrell, Roger
TI  - Black snow: : a theatrical novel 
SN  - 9781847493538
AV  - PG3476.B78 T4313
CY  - Surrey, England : Alma Classics, 2014.
KW  - Theater
KW  - Russia
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Authors, Russian
KW  - READING IN ENGLISH
KW  - Russian literature
KW  - Literary classics
N2  - After being saved from a suicide attempt by the appearance of 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 tyrannical director Ivan Vasilyevich – mayhem gradually gives way to absurdity.

Unpublished in Bulgakov’s own lifetime, Black Snow is peppered with darkly comic set pieces and draws on its author’s own bitter experience as a playwright with the Moscow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
ER  -