A Dog's Heart
Sharik is a hapless stray dog, baffled observer of human kind and vitriolic haterofcats. He is plucked from the streets of communistMoscow 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 pulse-raising drama, the atmosphere of its rapidly changing times.
Andrew Bromfield's vibrant 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.
Koiran sydän. Romaanit. Kertomukset. Novellit
Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков - один из самых ярких и талантливых писателей XX века. Тем не менее практически все, что он писал, подвергалось резкой критике, отменялись постановки пьес, запрещались публикации - значительная часть произведений вышла в свет только через несколько лет после его смерти.
В сборник вошли самые известные произведения Михаила Булгакова: "Театральный роман", "Жизнь господина де Мольера", "Записки юного врача", "Собачье сердце", "Дьяволиада", "Роковые яйца" и другие.
Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov - odin iz samykh jarkikh i talantlivykh pisatelej XX veka. Tem ne menee prakticheski vse, chto on pisal, podvergalos rezkoj kritike, otmenjalis postanovki pes, zapreschalis publikatsii - znachitelnaja chast proizvedenij vyshla v svet tolko cherez neskolko let posle ego smerti.
V sbornik voshli samye izvestnye proizvedenija Mikhaila Bulgakova: "Teatralnyj roman", "Zhizn gospodina de Molera", "Zapiski junogo vracha", "Sobache serdtse", "Djavoliada", "Rokovye jajtsa" i drugie.
