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: can you give me any more information about his plays?i cant seem to find anythingon the plays specifically, and i am researching him for college and personal ideas.thankyou.: : Are these names familiar? Has anyone here heard of these authors? have : : you read any of their works? I am particularly interested in discussing : : Platonov's book <U>The Foundation Pit</U>, because I have recently read it. It : : was unbearably symbolic, and I've been doing a little study on Russian : : history, so I can better understand what the author was trying to say. : : Vladimir Mayakovsky was a poet during the Bolshevik Revolution. Some : : hail him as the Poet of the Revolution...but I don't think he would have : : accepted such a prize. he also wrote plays, including <I>Mystery Bouffe</I>, : : <I>The Bedbug</I>, and <I>The Bathhouse</I>. The second two were of satirical nature, : : aimed towards the very Party he so lauded in its birth and beginnings. : : Mayakovsky because disillusioned and committed suicide in 1930. One of : : the last poems he wrote: : : <I>I am also fed up : : with the agit-prop; * : : I too could compose : : ballads about you- : : it is pleasanter and pays more- : : but I forced myself : : by planting my foot on the throat of my own song.</I> : : (*Department of Agitation and Propaganda) : : Mikhail Bulgakov is the author of many plays, and the book that is now : : growing ever more available in the West, <U>The Master and Margarita</U>. This : : is a satire focused on the Soviet state, its blunders, the foolish : : little man behind the curtain. I have yet to read this book, and would : : be interested in discussing it with anyone who had- to get a taste of : : their opinion. : : Boris Pilnyak is the author of <U>The Naked Year</U>, another book I haven't : : been able to get my hands on yet. Probably because I'm still hoping it : : will turn up in some used book store, and I will snatch it for a buck! : : (some dream). It is available in larger cities, I imagine, in Barnes and : : Noble or BookPeople or something. Has anyone read it? I'm extremely : : interested. : : I hope someone responds to this- please write me an email if you do, so : : I will know to come back here and read your letter. I hope to hear from : : you, be you lover of literature, history, Russia, or writing! : : satyrwish

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