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Walpurgis Night, or the Steps of the Commander (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) by Erofeev, Venedikt; Schwartz, Marian is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The first major English translation of a masterful seriocomic theatrical work by one of the most prominent writers of the Soviet epoch 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.

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Author

Erofeev, Venedikt; Schwartz, Marian

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300207057

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

4 / 5 (5 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14