Fatal Eggs: New Translation (Alma Classics): Mikhail Bulgakov - Softcover

Mikhail Bulgakov; Translated By Roger Cockrell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847493718 ISBN 13: 9781847493712

Publisher: Alma Classics, 2014

Synopsis

Professor Persikov, an eccentric zoologist, stumbles upon a new light ray that accelerates growth and reproduction rates in living organisms. In the wake of a plague that has decimated the country's poultry stocks, Persikov's discovery is exploited as a means to correct the problem. As foreign agents, the state and the Soviet media all seize upon the red ray, matters get out of hand - Set in 1928 but written four years earlier, during Stalin s rise to power, The Fatal Eggs is both an early piece of science fiction reminiscent of H.G. Wells and a biting, brilliant satire on the consequences of the abuse of power and knowledge.

Fatal Eggs is part of Alma Classics's The Mikhail Bulgakov Collection which includes A Young Doctor's Notebook, A Dog's Heart, Black Snow, Diaboliad and Other Stories, Notes on a Cuff and Other Stories, The Fatal Eggs, The Life of Monsieur de Moliere, The Master and Margarita, The White Guard

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Review:

The exuberance of it... has to enliven the reader, and make us laugh. --Doris Lessing

Bulgakov was not merely a brilliant observer of what was going on around him, but had an uncanny ability to pick out the particular manifestations of folly and discord which would set the tone of the era to follow. * The Guardian * Cockrell's self-effacing, fluent prose restores the elegant irony of the original, while rising to the challenge of Bulgakov's occasionally abstruse medical lexicon --The Guardian

Cockrell's self-effacing, fluent prose restores the elegant irony of the original, while rising to the challenge of Bulgakov's occasionally abstruse medical lexicon --Times Literary Supplement

About the Author:

Russian novelist and dramatist Mikhail Bulgakov (1891--1940) is one of the foremost satirists of the twentieth century and most famous for The Master and Margarita.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alma Classics
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1847493718
• ISBN 13: 9781847493712
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160