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  • Published: 2 May 2005
  • ISBN: 9780099479321
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $24.99

Black Snow




A brilliant satire on Method Acting and the Moscow Arts Theatre, from the author of The Master and Margarita.

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 Theatre.

  • Published: 2 May 2005
  • ISBN: 9780099479321
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $24.99

About the author

Mikhail Bulgakov

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov was a Russian, later Soviet writer, medical doctor, and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his novel The Master and Margarita, published posthumously, which has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century

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Praise 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