LOL at the professor.
He giveth 0 fucks. ( )

Quick, vicious, funny. At times strange to enjoy a piece of satire without agreeing with the views being defended. Granted, part of that was the foolishness of the protagonists, and I will continue to wonder exactly how much of that was intentional. Obviously not my favorite for genre, time, or viewpoint, but fascinating in context. ( )

A biological experiment carried out by an eminent Moscow scientist goes horribly wrong and turns a likeable mongrel into an obnoxious human being and would-be follower of the Communist party. This novella reads like a satirical, darkly comic parody of Frankenstein. Like Shostakovich, Bulgakov kept an ambiguous relationship with the Soviet authorities. If his magnum opus The Master and Margarita were to be compared to one of Shostakovich's symphonies (the bleak 4th, perhaps, or the enigmatic 5th), Heart of a Dog would be one of the jazz or ballet suites - slighter, lighter but no less hard-hitting. ( )

Daha önce Bulgakov okumamıştım. Kitabın konusu gayet zekice.Yazıldığı dönemin tıbbi görüşlerine atıflarda bulunması çok hoş. Ayrıca ilk sayfalarda Şarik'in insanlarla ilgili düşünceleri vs çok sevimli. Okumayanlara tavsiye ederim. ( )

Fun novella about a scientific experiment going in a different direction than expected. I felt that the buildup to Sharik's surgery was a bit long, but the story was good overall. I'd think that even someone without much knowledge of Soviet politics could enjoy this ( )