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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...
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Regarded as the foremost Russian translators in today's literary field, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhovsky -- together with acclaimed playwright Richard Nelson -- have created fresh interpretations of two seminal works from the acclaimed Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov. The original works were charged with cultural subtext and controversial intrigue, revealed in a new light with this exceptional new volume.
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From the author of The Master and Margarita, these semiautobiographical stories chronicle the darkly comic adventures of a physician in rural 1917 Russia.
Fresh from medical school in the winter of 1917, the young Dr. Bomgard assumes the role of the only doctor in a provincial Russian hospital. Dealing with a cases ranging from the horrific to the hilarious to the surreal, Bomgard recounts his solitary time practicing medicine among the superstitious,...
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