In this essay, one of two runners-up in the Observer/Anthony Burgess prize, Masters conveys the absurdity of this modernist piece of Russian theatre' The winning review: Susan Sheahan on Evgenia Arbugaeva's Weather Man ' Runner-up: Justin Bieber, Purpose World Tour by Liam O'BrienIt is 1929 and Dmitri Shostakovich is fuming. Without his permission, a concert preview of his first opera The Nose has been scheduled for …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AM on February 26, 2017