Heart of a Dog

In the early 1920s, M. Bulgakov successively created three stories: "The Devil's Game" (1923), "The Fatal Eggs" (1924), and "The Heart of a Dog" (1925). This was a direct and violent reaction to the "Sovietization" of Russia, to the accession of the "Sharikov" caste.
The stories "The Devil's Dream" and "The Fatal Eggs" were published in 1924 and 1925, respectively. "Heart of a Dog" waited for its hour for forty-three years. Bulgakov the satirist continues the traditions of Russian prose - Gogol and Saltykov-Shchedrin. And in his early stories, one can already see the outlines of future chapters of "The Master and Margarita".