| ISBN |
9780140455151 (paperback) |
| Name |
Bulgakov, Mikhail, 1891-1940 author. |
| Title |
A dog's heart : an appalling story / Mikhail Bulgakov ; translated and edited with notes by Andrew Bromfield ; with an introduction by James Meek. |
| Published |
London : Penguin, 2007. |
| ©2007 |
| Description |
xxv, 116 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Notes |
Originally published in Russian in 1968. |
| Also published as 'The heart of a dog'. |
| Includes bibliographical references (pages [xxvi]). |
| Summary |
Sharik is a hapless stray dog, baffled observer of human kind and vitriolic hater of cats. He is plucked from the streets of communist Moscow by Preobrazhensky, a medical professor, and subjected to a bizarre, human-gland-transplanting experiment. When Sharik begins to transform in weird and unexpected ways, his creator's virtuoso scientific confidence turns rapidly to wonderment, and then to horrified soul-searching. Bulgakov's hilarious science fiction is an angry satire of the utopian communist dream gone spectacularly awry, in which sinister forces lurk everywhere. Written in 1925 but immediately banned by the early Soviet government, the novella captures, in a unique style that alternates lucid realism with drama, the atmosphere of its rapidly changing times." "Andrew Bromfield's new 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 in his own lifetime. This edition also contains notes and a chronology. |
| Language note |
Translated from the Russian. |
| Subjects |
Animal experimentation -- Fiction |
| Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Fiction |
| Genre |
Satirical literature |
| Other Names |
Bromfield, Andrew translator, editor. |
| Meek, James, 1962- writer of introduction. |
| Also published as (work): Bulgakov, Mikhail, 1891-1940. Heart of a dog. |
| Series |
Penguin modern classics |
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