Theatrical Novel (Notes of a Dead Man), translated as Black Snow and A Dead Man's Memoir (Russian: Театральный роман (Записки покойника), romanized: Teatralnyy roman (Zapiski pokoynika) is an unfinished novel by Mikhail Bulgakov.

In 1929, Bulgakov started working on a novella, written in the form of letters, called For Secret Friend (also unfinished), addressed to his future wife Elena Bulgakova, which explains how he "became a playwright".

In 1930, For Secret Friend began to develop into a new novel, The Theatre, but in the same year he burned his initial sketches, along with rough drafts of The Master and Margarita.

[1] The book satirizes Konstantin Stanislavski through the character Ivan Vasilievich, whose methods hinder actors' performances, reflecting Bulgakov's frustration with Stanislavski whilst attempting to stage The Cabal of Hypocrites and The Days of the Turbins (which is mentioned in the novel as Black Snow) in 1930–1936.

Black Snow could be considered theatre-fiction, which Graham Wolfe explains as "referring to novels and stories that engage in concrete and sustained ways with theatre as artistic practice and industry".