num_pages: 174
description: A new translation of one of the most popular satires on the Russian Revolution and Soviet society Best known for The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov is one of twentieth-century Russia's most prominent novelists. A Dead Man's Memoir is a semi- autobiographical story about a writer who fails to sell his novel, then fails to commit suicide. When the writer's play is taken up for production in a theater, literary success beckons, but he is not prepared to reckon with the grotesquely inflated egos of the actors, directors, and theater managers.
language: English
title: A Dead Man's Memoir: A Theatrical Novel
titlecomplete: A Dead Man's Memoir: A Theatrical Novel (Penguin Classics)
characters: Sergei Maxudov, Ivan Vasilyevich
genres: Fiction, Russian Literature, 20th Century, Theatre, Classics, Humor, Russia, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 4066
places: Moscow, Russia
publisher: Penguin Classics