The Ascent of Mount Fuji: A Play (English and Russian Edition) Tapa dura - 1975

New York. 1975. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0374106290. A Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Russian by Nicholas Bethell. 211 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Antonio Frasconi. keywords: Literature Translated Russia Drama. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In the winter of of 1973 an extraordinarily provocative play was presented on the Moscow stage. THE ASCENT OF MOUNT FUJI jolted Russian audiences with its frank discussion of moral compromises made by individuals in the past. The play's exploration of human ethics reaches beyond the scope of the recent Soviet experience to all people, regardless of nationality and history. Four former schoolmates, three of their wives, and their favorite old schoolteacher gather for a reunion on a mountain in Kirghizia. The four had grown up and gone to war together, but had rarely made contact in the past twenty years. They are now all respectable members of Soviet society: a schoolteacher, an agronomist on a state farm, an… Leer más

New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1975. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Cloth in dust jacket, very good, mild soil to jacket. With review slip and note from Chris Casson on half sheet of FSG blue stationary, sending this book to Henry Hewes and inviting him to lunch with Aitmatov at the Captain's Table. Hewes was the main theater critic at the Saturday Review at the time, and was a pioneer in supporting and reviewing international theater as well as local non-Broadway productions.

New York Farrar Straus, 1975, First Edition. hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. -- Play. Bilingual edition, translated from Russian by Nicholas Bethell. -- Hardcover, 211 pages. Condition: very good, in very good dust jacket (short tears). -- Aitmatov, born 1928, was novelist, playwright of the Kirghiz mountains and steppes, writing in Russian and Kirghiz. ISBN 0374106290

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975. Hardcover. Good.