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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...

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Author

Mikhail Bulgakov

Publisher

RosettaBooks

Published

2016

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Rating

4.14 / 5 (44 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14