Theatrical Novel (Notes of a Dead Man), translated as Black Snow and A Dead Man's Memoir (Russian: Театральный роман (Записки покойника), romanized: Teatralnyy roman (Zapiski pokoynika) is an unfinished novel by Mikhail Bulgakov. Written in first-person, on behalf of a writer Sergei Maksudov, the novel tells of the drama behind-the-scenes of a theatre production and the Soviet writers' world. Source: Wikipedia (en)