Life of a Bishop's Assistant Satire Healy’s interest in drama was

Healy’s interest in drama was long-standing

Davit Kartvelishvili

Revol's novel is first and foremost a Menippean satire of the cosmopolitan west in the sixties

Ranging from Madrid to Milwaukee

Life of a Bishop's Assistant Satire Healy’s interest in drama wasLife of a Bishops Assistant is a rewritten biography of the eighteenth century historical figure Gavriil Dobrinin. The son of a priest, he became a bishops assistant before being fortunate enough to rise all the way to the position of gubernia procurator. Shklovsky illuminates Dobrinins obscure story, narrating it with an innovative ingenuity that takes centre stage. Life of a Bishops Assistant is a rewritten biography of the eighteenth century