Walpurgis Night
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
The Margellos World Republic of Letters
ISBN-10
0300159862
ISBN-13
9780300159868
Publisher
Yale University Press
Imprint
Yale University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 24th, 2014
Print length
152 Pages
Weight
180 grams
Dimensions
20.10 x 12.90 x 1.10 cms
Product Classification:
Plays, playscriptsPlays, playscripts, drama
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The first major English translation of a masterful seriocomic theatrical work by one of the most prominent writers of the Soviet epoch
The first major English translation of a masterful seriocomic theatrical work by one of the most prominent writers of the Soviet epochWalpurgis 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.
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