| Book Name: | Walpurgis Night or the Steps of the Commander |
| Author: | Venedikt Erofeev |
| Category: | A Special Books |
| Language: | English |
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By acclaimed Russian writer Venedikt Erofeev, Walpurgis Night is considered a classic in the playwright’s homeland. Erofeev’s dark and funny five-act satire of Soviet repression has been called the Brezhnev era comic high-water mark. 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.
Walpurgis Night, or the Steps of the Commander
Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Publisher: Yale University Press, Year: 2014
ISBN: 0300159862,9780300159868
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