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Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov (1994, Trade Paperback)

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I first read Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita on a balcony of the Hotel Metropole in Saigon on three summer evenings in 1971. The tropical air was heavy and full of the smells of cordite and motorcycle exhaust and rotting fish and wood-fire stoves, and the horizon flared ambiguously, perhaps from heat lightning, perhaps from bombs. Later each night, as was my custom, I would wander out into the steamy back alleys of the city, where no one ever seemed to sleep, and crouch in doorways with the people and listen to the stories of their culture and their ancestors and their ongoing lives. Bulgakov taught me to hear something in those stories that I had not yet clearly heard. One could call it, in terms that would soon thereafter gain wide currency, "magical realism". The deadpan mix of the fantastic and the realistic was at the heart of the Vietnamese mythos. It is at the heart of the present zeitgeist. And it was not invented by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, as wonderful as his One Hundred Years of Solitude is. Garcia Marquez's landmark work of magical realism was predated by nearly three decades by Bulgakov's brilliant masterpiece of a novel. That summer in Saigon a vodka-swilling, talking black cat, a coven of beautiful naked witches, Pontius Pilate, and a whole cast of benighted writers of Stalinist Moscow and Satan himself all took up permanent residence in my creative unconscious. Their presence, perhaps more than anything else from the realm of literature, has helped shape the work I am most proud of. I'm often asked for a list of favorite authors. Here is my advice. Read Bulgakov. Look around you at the new century. He will show you things you need to see.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
GROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0802150594
ISBN-13
9780802150592
eBay Product ID (ePID)
370409

Product Key Features

Book Title
Heart of a Dog
Author
Mikhail Bulgakov
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
European / General, General
Publication Year
1994
Genre
Drama, Fiction
Number of Pages
84 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
4.2 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Ps3556.E42e4 1990
Lccn
87-008545
Dewey Decimal
891.7/3/42
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
20

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The book is really great. Right off the bat from the fist couple of pages it proves to be really funny. The only thing that bothered me was the font that was used on the first few pages; reading it was like daggers to my eyes. It is really short and can be finished with in one day which is nice compared to heave door stoppers which can take you months to finish. This book is great for a fun and fast read.

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