Black snow

Description:

Sergei Maksudov has failed as a novelist and made a farce of a suicide attempt, but only after a surprise break as a playwright on the Moscow stage does his turmoil truly begin. Thrown uncomprehending into theatre life, he soon sees his beloved play dragged into chaos by inflated egos, jealous critics, literary double-dealers, communist censors and insanely bad acting. -- Cover p. [4].

subjects: Fiction,  Translations into English,  Russian fiction,  Fiction, general,  Soviet union, fiction,  Russian drama,  Russian prose literature,  Theater,  Russian Authors,  History,  Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author),  Authors, fiction,  Soviet union, history, revolution, 1917-1921, fiction

Places: Russia,  Soviet Union

Times: 20th century