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Buch (Softcover): Belletristik
Walpurgis Night, or the Steps of the Commander
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Yale University Press Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: RRNK2GN
EAN: 9780300159868
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Beschreibung
The first major English translation of a masterful seriocomic theatrical work by one of the most prominent writers of the Soviet epoch. Walpurgis Night,. by acclaimed Russian writer Venedikt Erofeev, is considered a classic in the playwright's homeland. Erofeev's dark and funny five-act satire of Soviet repression has been called the comic high-water mark of the Brezhnev era. Walpurgis Night. dramatizes the outrageous trials of Lev Isakovich Gurevich, an alcoholic half-Jewish dissident poet confined by the state to a hospital for the insane. In "Ward 3"-a microcosm of repressive Soviet society-Gurevich deploys his brilliant wit and ingenuity to bedevil his jailers, defend his fellow inmates, protest his incarceration, and generally create mayhem, which ultimately leads to a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Venedikt Erofeev
- Marian Schwartz
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2014
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 152