. "224"^^ . "Theatrical Novel"@en . . "Theatrical Novel (also A Dead Man's Memoir) 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 and the writers' world.Work on it was begun on 26 November 1936. But even in 1929, Mikhail Bulgakov created a novel in letters \"For Secret Friend\" (also unfinished), addressed to his future wife Helen Bulgakova, which explains how he \"became a playwright\"."@en .