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A Dog's Heart (Paperback)
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A Dog's Heart (Paperback)
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A Dog's Heart: An Appalling Story is Mikhail Bulgakov's hilarious
satire on Communist hypocrisies. This Penguin Classics edition is
translated with notes by Andrew Bromfield, and includes an
introduction by James Meek. In this surreal work by the author of
The Master and Margarita, wealthy Moscow surgeon Filip
Preobrazhensky implants the pituitary gland and testicles of a
drunken petty criminal into the body of a stray dog named Sharik.
As the dog slowly transforms into a man, and the man into a
slovenly, lecherous government official, the doctor's life descends
into chaos. A scathing indictment of the New Soviet Man, A Dog's
Heart was immediately banned by the Soviet government when it was
first published in 1925: alternating lucid realism with
pulse-raising drama, the novel captures perfectly the atmosphere of
its rapidly changing times. Andrew Bromfield's vibrant translation
is accompanied by an introduction by James Meek, which places the
work in the context of the Russian class struggles of the era and
considers the vision, progressive style and lasting relevance of an
author who was isolated and suppressed during his lifetime. This
edition also contains notes and a chronology. Mikhail Bulgakov
(1891-1940) was born in Kiev, today the capital of Ukraine. After
finishing high school, Bulgakov entered the Medical School of Kiev
University, graduating in 1916. He wrote about his experiences as a
doctor in his early works Notes on Cuffs and Notes of a Young
Country Doctor. His later works treated the subject of the artist
and the tyrant under the guise of historical characters, but The
Master and Margarita is generally considered his masterpiece. Fame,
at home and abroad, was not to come until a quarter of a century
after his death at Moscow in 1940. If you enjoyed A Dog's Heart,
you might like Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, also available
in Penguin Classics. 'One of the greatest of modern Russian
writers, perhaps the greatest' Nigel Jones, Independent
General
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