The Fatal Eggs (Hesperus Modern Voices) | 
 enlarge | Author: Mikhail Bulgakov
Creators: Doris Lessing, Hugh Aplin
Publisher: Hesperus Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 725978
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 116
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 4.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 1843914115
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781843914112
ASIN: 1843914115
Publication Date: August 1, 2005
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An inspired work of science fiction and a biting political allegory, Bulgakov's The Fatal Eggs tells of a brilliant scientist whose experiments with life spiral terriblyand fatefullyout of control. Foreword by Doris Lessing.Quite by chance, Professor Persikov discovers a new form of light ray whose effect, when directed at living cells, is to accelerate growth in primitive organisms. But when this ray is shone on the wrong batch of eggs, the Professor finds himself both the unwilling creator of giant hybrids and the focus of a merciless press campaign. For it seems the propaganda machine has turned its gaze upon him, distorting his nature in the very way his "innocent" tampering created the monster snakes and crocodiles that now terrorize the neighborhood.
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 Genius May 4, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Bulgakov is wonderful. This story is a charming expression of Bulgakov's sentiments of Soviet Russia. I am constantly amazed that Bulgakov managed to escape the Culling that was suffered by so many of Russia's intellectuals.
sci-fi satire October 15, 2004
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Of interest to any admirers of Bulgakov and those interested in science fiction or satirical fiction, The Fatal Eggs is a brilliant satire on Stalinist Russia. Bulgakov lived under Stalin's regime and experienced first-hand suppression and censorship (his most celebrated works were not published in his lifetime), giving this satire a thrilling bite. The story is of an eccentric Russian scientist who discovers a form of light ray that accelerates growth in organisms. But when the ray is shone upon the wrong batch of eggs, he accidentally creates giant hybrids which quickly overun the city, while the propaganda-driven press report on all of this as it spirals further and further out of control. Highly entertaining, and well-translated too.
 Slow, predictable with some fantastic moments February 9, 2004
8 out of 12 found this review helpful
The satire element of this story is so oudated that it fails completly to enliven the functional prose, the tedious details and the very thin and predictable plot. But Bulgakov IS a great writer, and his genius shines in some intermitent episodes of the book .. and make it worth the while, it's only 100 pages after all.
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