A Dog's Heart

Mikhail Bulgakov (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

144 Seiten

2025
Penguin Classics (Verlag)
978-0-241-74628-8 (ISBN)

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What would happen if a doctor implanted the pituitary gland and testicles of a man into the body of a stray dog? In Mikhail Bulgakov’s topsy-turvy world, the dog starts to walk on two legs, drink, smoke, thieve, chase women and recite every swear word in Russian. The perfect candidate for a government official, in other words. This rude, riotous send-up of the Soviet Union, banned immediately on publication, is satire red in tooth and claw.

Mikhail Bulgakov was born in Kiev in May 1891. His sympathetic portrayal of White characters in his stories, in the plays The Days of the Turbins (The White Guard), which enjoyed great success at the Moscow Arts Theatre in 1926, and Flight (1927), and his satirical treatment of the officials of the New Economic Plan, led to growing criticism, which became violent after the play The Purple Island. He also wrote a brilliant biography of his literary hero, Jean-Baptiste Molière, 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.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.04.2025
Reihe/Serie	Penguin Archive
Einführung	James Meek
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	112 x 182 mm
Gewicht	91 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
ISBN-10	0-241-74628-0 / 0241746280
ISBN-13	978-0-241-74628-8 / 9780241746288
Zustand	Neuware