That Third Guy A Comedy from the Stalinist 1930s with Essays on Theater |
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| Author:
| Krzhizhanovsky, Sigizmund |
| Translator:
| Lin, Alisa |
| Foreword by:
| Emerson, Caryl |
| ISBN: | 978-0-299-31710-2 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2018 |
| Publisher: | University of Wisconsin Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $79.95 |
Book Description:
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The first English translation of Krzhizhanovsky's modernist essays on theater and of his play That Third Guy, a farce written at the onset of the Stalinist Terror. The plot builds on Alexander Pushkin's poem "Cleopatra," while parodying the themes of Eros and empire in the Cleopatra tales of Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw.
The first English translation of Krzhizhanovsky's modernist essays on theater and of his play That Third Guy, a farce written at the onset of the Stalinist Terror. The plot builds on Alexander Pushkin's poem "Cleopatra," while parodying the themes of Eros and empire in the Cleopatra tales of Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw.