Molière, or The Cabal of Hypocrites and Don Quixote: Two Plays by Mikhail Bulgakov (TCG Classic Russian Drama Series)

"Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English." ?The New Yorker

Pevvear, a native of Boston, and Volokhonsjky, of St. "Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English."—The New YorkerFrom the acclaimed Russian author and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov, Molière, or The Cabal of Hypocrites and Don Quixote are given fresh new translations by preeminent Russian translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, along with prominent playwright Richard Nelson. Petersburg, are married to each other and live in Paris, France.. Most known for his novel The Master and Margarita, Bulgakov had a knack for political allegory and proved it time and again in his numerous writings. Their translations of The Brothers Karamazov and Anna Karenina won the 1991 and 2002 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prizes. Both works in this one-of-a-kind book were contentious in their time, written as allegories of the early twentieth-century Russian agenda, remarking especially on Stalin's harsh regime. Charged with cultural subtext and controversial intrigue, both plays are revealed in a new light in this exceptional new volume.Richard Nelson's many plays include Rodney's Wife, Goodnight Children Everywhere, Drama Des