Театральный роман (Записки покойника) (English: Theatrical Novel, also published as A Dead Man's Memoir, or Black Snow) is an unfinished novel by Mikhail Bulgakov. Written in first-person, on behalf of a writer Sergei Maksudov, the novel tells of the drama behind-the-scenes of a theatre production and the writers' world. It was first published in Новый мир magazine in 1965.