Goodbye Cruel World July 21, 2012

Adapted by Robert Ross Parker 'Goodbye Cruel World is a modern translation and re-imagining of 'Samoubiitsa (The Suicide)' by Nikolai Erdman. It tells the story of Semyon Semyonovich, an unemployed, impoverished young man who discovers the joy of life only when he decides to kill himself. Then word gets out and he finds himself inundated with sympathetic visitors--begging him to die on their behalf.