Bulgakov: A Dog's Heart
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Bulgakov: A Dog's Heart
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Narrated by:
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Roy McMillan
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By:
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Mikhail Bulgakov
About this listen
When a respected surgeon decides to transplant human body parts into a stray dog, he creates a monster - drunken, profligate, aggressive and selfish. It seems the worst aspects of the donor have been transplanted as well. As his previously well-regulated home descends into riotous chaos, the doctor realises he will have to try to reverse the operation; but the dog isn't so keen....
Wild, uproarious and deliriously comic, Bulgakov's short novel is at once a comment on the problems of 1920s Russia and a lasting satire on human nature.
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This is short novel is a satire on life in Bolshevik Russia and human nature, but also a work of comic fiction. A brief synopsis would sum it up as an eminent doctor conducts an experiment in which he transplants a deceased criminal's pituitary gland and testes into the body of a stray dog he has taken in. The dog transforms over the following weeks into a manlike creature. However, instead of being a loyal, obedient dog-like person, he is an unpleasant, conniving bastard who causes no end of misery for anyone who crosses his path.
Roy McMillan reads it with verve and aplomb and it gives it the voice this story so richly deserves.
Barking up the right tree
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What made the experience of listening to Bulgakov: A Dog's Heart the most enjoyable?
A wonderfully writen work from a unusual perspectiveWhat other book might you compare Bulgakov: A Dog's Heart to, and why?
I think that the fact that it's not like anything else - even by the same author - is what makes it so interesting.Which scene did you most enjoy?
Lots of scenes, lots to like...but the operation scene will stay with you.Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes, very grippingAny additional comments?
Nearer to works by Phillip K Dick than anything else by Bulgakov but the setting, satire and the danger this man was placing himself in by writing it, really set it apart.Weirdly Wonderful High Satire
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Roy McMillan is a wonderful narrator. The voices of the professor and the dog are a joy to listen to.
If you are curious about Bulgakov I would thoroughly recommend this. If you enjoy satire and/ or have an interest in Soviet history then this is essential listening.
Brilliant Bulgakov
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Finally, great praise for Roy Macmillan, who yet again managed to provide a most expressive and yet subtly differentiated rendering of the many different characters involved in this turbulent drama!
Hilarious and topical
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A masterpiece
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Chose this after seeing many good reviews for it, but found the story pointless and dull.
Unbearably irritating narration
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