Black Snow

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Black Snow
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A new edition of Bulgakovâ€™s blistering satire about the great Russian director Stanislavski, inventor of â€œMethod acting,â€ part of Melville Houseâ€™s reissue of the Bulgakov backlist in Michael Glennyâ€™s celebrated translations.

In 1926, a play based on Mikhail Bulgakovâ€™s novel The White Guard premiered at the prestigious Moscow Arts Theatre and it was an immediate and long-lasting success that laid the ground for the rest of Bulgakovâ€™s career as a playwright and novelist.

But it was not an entirely positive experience, and this novel, written near the end of Bulgakovâ€™s life, skewers the theatrical fraternity he had been a part of for many years, and the Stalinist system of censorship that suppressed his work.

Black Snow is the story of Maxudov, a young playwright whose play is chosen, almost at random, to be performed by the legendary Independent Theatre, and the chaos that ensues. The two co-directors of the theater, modeled after Stanislavski and his co-director, battle to control the production, star actresses throw daily fits, and with each rehearsal the chances of the play ever being ready to perform recedes. The ultimate backstage novel and a brilliant satire from one of the greatest modern Russian writers.
Country USA
Brand Brand: Melville House
Manufacturer Melville House
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2013-07-30
EANs 9781612192147

Country	USA
Brand	Brand: Melville House
Manufacturer	Melville House
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2013-07-30
EANs	9781612192147

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