{"product_id":"a-dead-mans-memoir-isbn-9780140455144","title":"A Dead Man's Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new translation of one of the most popular satires on the Russian Revolution and Soviet society\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Best known for \u003ci\u003eThe Master and Margarita\u003c\/i\u003e, Mikhail Bulgakov is one of twentieth-century Russia's most prominent novelists. A \u003ci\u003eDead Man's Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e is a semi- autobiographical story about a writer who fails to sell his novel, then fails to commit suicide. When the writer's play is taken up for production in a theater, literary success beckons, but he is not prepared to reckon with the grotesquely inflated egos of the actors, directors, and theater managers.\"The book is gentle in tone if fierce in substance.\"\u003cbr\u003e -\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Bulgakov is the first magical realist.\"\u003cbr\u003e -Craig Raine, author of \u003ci\u003eT.S. Eliot\u003c\/i\u003eMikhail Bulgakov (1891?1940) was a doctor, novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and assistant director of the Moscow Arts Theater","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303406784741,"sku":"NP9780140455144","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140455144.jpg?v=1767720416","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/a-dead-mans-memoir-isbn-9780140455144","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}