| Your Murderer Contributor(s): Aksyonov, Vassily (Author), Gerould, Daniel (Editor), Gerould, Daniel (Translator) |
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ISBN: 9057551039 ISBN-13: 9789057551031 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $109.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2000 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Theater - General - Drama | European - General |
| Dewey: 891.724 |
| Physical Information: 74 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From Russia comes this ironic, satirical, multi-layered, modern pop-art parable by Vassily Aksyonov. Your Murderer is a richly grotesque hodgepodge of different linguistic levels that defies all rules and mixes a powerful cocktail out of traditional slogans, invented obscentities, foreign words and phrases, terminology from sports and heavy drinking, and pure nonsense. Daniel Gerould is Lucille Lortel Distinguished Professor of Theater and Comparative Literature at the City University of New York. He is the Editor of Slavic and East European Performance and of harwood academic publishers's Polish and East European Theater Archive series. Your Murderer comes from Russia and is an ironic, satirical, multi-layered, modern pop-art parable - richly grotesque and on different linguistic levels. that defies all rules, mixing a powerful cocktail out of traditional slogans, invented obscentities, foreign words and phrases, terminology from sports and heavy drinking, and pure nonsense. |