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A Dog's Heart
Mikhail Bulgakov
出版
Rosetta Books
, 2016-03-20
主題
Fiction / Political
Fiction / Satire
Fiction / Humorous / Black Humor
Fiction / Literary
ISBN
0795348436
9780795348433
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=aysAEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.