Walpurgis Night Walpurgis Night

Walpurgis Night

or the Steps of the Commander

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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Arts & Entertainment
RELEASED
2014
May 19
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
152
Pages
PUBLISHER
Yale University Press
SELLER
Yale University
SIZE
7.6
MB

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