![]() ![]() ![]() I think the translationin the audio-version is excellent and the phrases sound as natural in English as they would have done in Russian. What does Roy McMillan bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book? ![]() It is like having a cance to look through a window of a house in history and see and feel what is going on. I liked the storytelling, stopping and zooming in on an aspect of a place or person, then zooming back out to continue the narrative. A simple description of a young woman (that the dog follows down the street), ends in a description of her life, dreams and passions. Juxtaposed with the new brutal regime (well he did see bolshevism establish itself with the Civil War), i liked the when the protagonist Preobrazhenskiy says "you can't force people to do something, you can only suggest."Another was his depiction of people as if he knew them heart and soul. My memorable moment in "A Dog' Heart" was that Bulgakov characterises the dying aristocratic epoch with its manners and traditions. What was one of the most memorable moments of Bulgakov: A Dog's Heart? ![]()
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