The Bathhouse (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Vladimir Mayakovsky
- First Published: 1930
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: The late 1920’s
- Setting: Moscow, the Soviet Union
- Genres: Satire, Drama, Expressionist literature
- Subjects: Values, Communism or communists, Revolutions, 1920’s, Time travel, Corruption, Soviet Union or Soviets, Bureaucracy or bureaucrats, Russian Revolution
- Locales: Moscow, Russia
Characters Discussed
Chudakov (chuh-dah-KOV), a Soviet inventor. He is a visionary who wants to build a time machine that will enable people to extend moments of joy and contract periods of sorrow. Single-minded, serious, hardworking, and without government support, he succeeds in making contact with the future. At the end of the play, his invention carries him and many others a hundred years into the future.
The Phosphorescent Woman, an emissary from the year 2030 who is contacted by Chudakov’s invention. She comes from a time when Communism has triumphed worldwide....
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