Walpurgis Night, or the Steps of the Commander: A Tragicomedy in Five Acts

by Venedikt Erofeev

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300159862
• ISBN13: 9780300159868
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.9"