Walpurgis Night, or the Steps of the Commander: A Tragicomedy in Five Acts

ISBN-13: 9780300159868 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 152 str.

Venedikt Erofeev; Marian Schwartz

Opis

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.