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A Dog's Heart

Pocket
Engelsk
A Dog's Heart
A Dog's Heart
  • Forfatter: Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Format: Pocket
  • Antall sider: 144
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • EAN: 9780140455151
  • Utgivelsesår: 2007
  • Bidragsyter: Bulgakov, Mikhail
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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