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Lauded Russian author and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov's A Dog's Heart (also 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 virtueโbut goodness and virtue as defined by whom?
Both a nod to the Frankenstein myth and a vicious critique of the Soviet government's attempts to reshape and redefine personhood during and after the Russian Revolution, the popular tale poses the question, what taints Sharik's thoughts and actions? Is it the heart of the dog, the corrupted flesh of the human man he was transformed with, or the attempts by his creators to turn Sharik into a model citizen and human being?
Like many of Bulgakov's novels and plays, A Dog's Heart was rejected for publication by censors in 1925, but was circulated via samizdat (the clandestine production and...
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