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HEART OF A DOG

MIKHAIL BULGAKOV (1891–1940) was born in Kiev. After studying and practicing medicine, he gave up his career for writing. Short story writer, playwright, and novelist, Bulgakov was among the group of writers who did not emigrate after the revolution. He was under constant attack by party-line critics, and by 1930 was completely barred from publication. It was not until the sixties that he was “rehabilitated” and published again in Russia.

MIRRA GINSBURG was born in Russia. She is the translator of Bulgakov’s great novel The Master and Margarita, his Life of Monsieur de Molière, and his plays Flight and Bliss. Among other works, she has translated and edited The Fatal Eggs and Other Soviet Satire; Yevgeny Zamyatin’s novel WE; a collection of his stories, The Dragon, and a collection of his essays, A Soviet Heretic; and stories and novels by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Alexey Remizov, Isaac Babel, Mikhail Zoshchenko, and Andrey Platonov. She is also the editor of many collections of folklore and the author of more than twenty books for children.