Author : Venedikt Erofeev
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300207050
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Walpurgis Night, or the Steps of the Commander by : Venedikt Erofeev
Download or read book Walpurgis Night, or the Steps of the Commander written by Venedikt Erofeev and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: divWalpurgis 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./DIV