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A review by woolfen
The Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
3.0
3.5 Stars.
Bulgakov was still making his foray into literature here, but with enough nostalgia of the Tsarist regime to earn the ire of censors. This book is fine: the writing in the first half of Sharik before his operation is very enjoyable, before the slightly ham-fisted metaphor about Bolshevism et al. Maybe it was just my connection with Sharik as a dog that made it harder to enjoy the rest of the book.
Bulgakov was still making his foray into literature here, but with enough nostalgia of the Tsarist regime to earn the ire of censors. This book is fine: the writing in the first half of Sharik before his operation is very enjoyable, before the slightly ham-fisted metaphor about Bolshevism et al. Maybe it was just my connection with Sharik as a dog that made it harder to enjoy the rest of the book.