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1 online resource (130 pages) |
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text file rdaft |
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(epub) |
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| Summary |
"A dark, fantastical satire of Communist utopianism by the author of The Master and Margarita. Lauded Russian author and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov's A Dog's Heart (sometimes translated as The Heart of a Dog ) is a zany, violent, and whimsical satire of the failures inherent in the dream of a Communist utopia, following dog-turned-human Sharik as he tries and fails utterly to live a life of goodness and virtue-but goodness and virtue as defined by whom? Both a nod to the Frankenstein myth and a vicious critique of the Soviet government's attempts to reshape and redefine personhood during and after the Russian Revolution, A Dog's Heart was rejected for publication by censors in 1925, but was circulated via samizdat -the clandestine production and distribution of literature that had been banned by the state-for years until it was translated into English in 1968. To this day, the book remains one of Bulgakov's most highly regarded works."-- Provided by Freading. |
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Publisher metadata. |
| Subject |
Animal experimentation -- Soviet Union -- Fiction.
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Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Satire.
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| Subject |
FICTION / Political.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Bromfield, Andrew, translator.
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| Added Title |
Sobachʹe serdt︠s︡e. English
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| ISBN |
9780795348433 (epub) |
| Standard No. |
9780795348433 |
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