Heart of a Dog | Mikhail Bulgakov | Decade of a Dying Nation

Heart of a Dog | Mikhail Bulgakov | HUMANIMALS

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Heart of a Dog

	Heart of a Dog Mikhail Bulgakov Grove Press, 1994 - 84 pages average customer review:based on 47 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Decade of a Dying Nation

Bulgakov's novel is a farce based on the Soviet 'experiment' with its citizens. Rather than read the populous and create a socialist union that would fit early twentieth century Russia, the Bolsheviks attempted to create a society of conscientious political workers. But the lack of education and the inherent crudeness of the raw material that was the 'masses' made the experiment's failure inevitable. Polygraph Polygraphovich, born a dog, is surgically transformed into the quintessential soviet man--opportunistic and petty. In reading Heart of a Dog, one cannot help but feel the unfulfilled potential of the Russian Revolution. Bulgakov's masterful subtleties elucidate the Soviet thirties as a decade of a dying nation, when Stalinist theory negated the 1917 Revolution

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HUMANIMALS

'Could animals became human?' is just the reverse of the question which Bulgakov could not put down living in the stalinist Russia: 'How come humans could became animals?' It's corosive hummour burns out everything sheding a mercyless light on the true aspects of the 'hommo sovieticus'. I hardly ever read something simmilar exept, perhaps, the swiftian 'modest proposal'.

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