A new translation of one of the most popular satires on the Russian
Revolution and Soviet society
Best known for The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov is one of
twentieth-century Russia's most prominent novelists. A Dead Man's
Memoir 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.