Coracao de Cachorro e Outras Novelas, Um

by Mikhail Bulgakov

“As Aventuras de Tchítchikov”, “Diabolíada”, “Os Ovos Fatais” e “Um Coração de Cachorro” são as quatro novelas de Bulgákov incluídas neste volume. Foram traduzidas diretamente do russo por Homero Freitas de Andrade e são acompanhadas, nesta edição, de ensaio que analisa aspectos da prosa satírica do escritor e apresenta uma visão geral do gênero nos primeiros anos da literatura russo-soviética, destacando a contribuição de Bulgákov e de Maiakóvski para a renovação do gênero. Para Bulgákov, a sátira cria-se a si própria, de repente, quando surge um escritor que repara na imperfeição da vida corrente e, indignando-se, inicia seu desmascaramento artístico. A prosa de Bulgákov segue e dialoga com a rica tradição literária russa que o antecedeu, especialmente de Gógol, referência explícita da novela As “Aventuras de Tchítchikov”, que abre o volume.

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Published January 1, 2010

About the author

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (Russian: Михаил Булгаков) was a Russian writer, medical doctor, and playwright. His novel The Master and Margarita , published posthumously, has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.

He also wrote the novel The White Guard and the plays Ivan Vasilievich, Flight (also called The Run ), and The Days of the Turbins . He wrote mostly about the horrors of the Russian Civil War and about the fate of Russian intellectuals and officers of the Tsarist Army caught up in revolution and Civil War.

Some of his works ( Flight , all his works between the years 1922 and 1926, and others) were banned by the Soviet government, and personally by Joseph Stalin, after it was decided by them that they "glorified emigration and White generals". On the other hand, Stalin loved The Days of the Turbins (also called The Turbin Brothers ) very much and reportedly saw it at least 15 times.