Book description
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.
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. None of his major fiction was
published during his lifetime.
