3.5
The Fatal Eggs
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As the new reality of post-Revolution Soviet life begins to settle in, a gifted but eccentric zoologist named Persikov invents a machine that revolutionizes the growth of living organisms by drastically increasing their size and reproductive rates.
Meanwhile, a mysterious plague has wiped out the entire poultry population of Russia, raising concerns about the government's ability to feed its people. Hoping to use Persikov's yet-untested invention to revive the decimated chicken population, the secret service confiscates Persikov's machine—with disastrous results…
Inspired by H. G. Wells's novel
, this science fiction novella delighted readers in 1925 Russia—and also disapproved of by certain critics who saw the tale as an anti-Soviet satire of the events of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and of post-war leadership.
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3.5
“honnêtement, j’ai eu du mal à entrer dans l’histoire. je me suis ennuyée à plusieurs moments, j’ai pensé à DNF plus d’une fois. je ne sais pas si ça vient de la traduction (Colette Stoïanov, 1990), du fait que l’intrigue ne m’a pas vraiment captivée, ou si tout simplement Mikhail Bulgakov n’est pas un auteur fait pour moi. j'aurai probablement ma réponse avec ''Cœur de chien''.”
About Mikhail Bulgakov
is a prize-winning translator of Russian who recently received her second Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts to translate Olga Slavnikova’s newest novel,
. She has translated classic literary works by Nina Berberova and Yuri Olesha, as well as Edvard Radzinsky’s
.
is professor in the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies at the University of Sheffield. He is author, editor, or coeditor of more than fifteen books, including
Other books by Mikhail Bulgakov
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