this is the highly subjective way I read and interpret literature
(I mostly read classic belles-lettres, but you’ll find some examples of trashy readings here and there as well)
This is the play with which the nowadays almost forgotten playwright Nokolaj Erdman got into trouble with the Soviet regime.
Самоубийца is about the Soviet Everyman Semen Podsekal’nikov who gets talked into killing himself and all the people who are trying to turn his planned suicide into their own personal advantage.
Great dialogues, great characters, great story and great ending!