First Published in 2000. The Simpleton, which was written in 1968 and could not be performed for political reasons, saw the light of day only in 1994. Its compl

As for characters, the major one is Bashmetyev; on the one hand, a sophisticated man, on the other, apathetic, unsociable and having a limited, formal education

Simplex starts out in life as innocent as any child - even more so. But then the soldiers came. And Simplex takes his first stumbling step out into the wide wor