Synopsis
New translation of one of the most important works by Mikhail Bulgakov, the author of 'The Master and Margarita'. Includes pictures and an extensive section on Bulgakov's life and works. New volume in ongoing series of the complete works of Bulgakov in English. Through his surreal, often grotesque humour, Bulgakov creates in this book - a new translation of one of the most popular satires on the Russian Revolution and on Soviet society - an ingenious new twist to the 'Frankenstein' parable. Having been scalded by boiling water earlier that day, and with little chance to survive the severe winter night, a stray dog is left for dead on the streets. Lamenting his fate, he is ill prepared for the chance arrival of a wealthy professor who befriends him and takes him home. However, it seems the professor's motives are not entirely altruistic - an expert in medical experimentation, he sees his new charge as the potential subject for a bizarre operation, and implants glands from a dead criminal in the dog. The resulting half-man, half-beast is, as to be expected, a monstrosity, yet one that fits in remarkably well with Soviet society...
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About the Author
Russian novelist and dramatist Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) is one of the foremost satirists of the twentieth century. He is best known for The Master and Margarita. A.S. Byatt is one of England's foremost writers - a distinguished critic as well as a novelist - she was appointed a C.B.E. in 1990, the same year her novel Possession won the Booker Prize.
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