Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-221) and filmography (pages [193]-194).
Contents:
Alexander Galich : biographical dateline -- Dress rehearsal -- Appendix A : Alexander Galich's poems cited in Dress rehearsal (Behind seven fences -- Lenochka -- By the rivers of Babylon -- Falling asleep and waking up -- The train -- Clouds -- The old prince -- A song dedicated to my mother -- Hospital jig -- To the memory of Boris Leonidovich Pasternak -- Sacred spring -- A song about unhappy conjurers -- Numbers -- "Comrades, I'll tell you like it is" -- The jester's second song -- A Petersburg romance) -- Appendix B : Alexander Galich's filmography -- Appendix C : Alexander Galich's plays.
Summary:
In "Dress Rehearsal," noted dissident author and playwright Alexander Galich intersperses the text of his play "Sailor's Rest," banned by the Soviet government, with his reflections on growing up Jewish in the Soviet Union and the rise of official anti-Semitism in the USSR after the Second World War.
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