🐶 The Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov / What is the novella REALLY about? 😱

[@RM-ih6fk]

This is such an amazing explanation. I’m new to reading for fun and for myself and read heart of the dog after master and Margarita simply because I loved Bulgakov’s writing. You have helped me understand so much more about this book and it’s underlying messages. Your explanation is so pleasant and straightforward, thank you!! 😁

[@major9364]

wow what a good explanation! thank you!

[@charmainesaliba5546]

This novella sounds interesting I will looking for it. Thanks for sharing 😊

[@ba-gg6jo]

On my read list. Always good to see you do an in-depth review. I hope you are keeping well as you haven't posted for a while. Take care and stay safe.

[@bookishtopics]

Thank you!

[@leilastackleather9927]

Thank you for your in-depth talks on Russian classics. I hope to see more. 🙏

[@beatricea2153]

Hello! I miss your videos, you usually accompanied me at work and helped me with your soothing voice to hang in there. Hope u r well! We want more videos from youuuu! Come back!!!!!

[@theodoraroseti6429]

Surprising insights, thank you for sharing your view!

[@jillwhitneybirk]

This was fascinating! Thank you so much for this wonderful lesson. ❤️

[@jessicariano2291]

Really enjoyed your review. I appreciate the historical context you provide and how you explain the feelings or motivations of the proletariat vs. the intelligentsia. Thanks!

[@MissSnow]

I really like this in depth review 😊 I would not have understood this in full without. This is why I'm a little scared to read "Master ans Margarita", because I read, that there are a lot if hidden things you don't understand, when you don't have a clue about the time and place it was written.

[@ba-gg6jo]

Don't be worried by "Master and Margarita", a wonderful criticism in the form of an absurd comedy about the Soviet attitude to religion and how professional writers, etc were doing back flips over what they should write and to ensure they fitted into current Communist thinking. I was amazed that this author wasn't bundled off to the Gulag. Good luck.

[@andrijazekovic]

great video!!!

[@brennonshanks]

Great video!

[@rossetarwen]

Wow! This is a great review -- thank you, Tanya! I haven't read "The Heart of a Dog" yet, but it's been on my radar for a while. I showed your part of your review to my partner (he is also from Russia) and he said, "You see! This woman knows the historical context!" The way you talk about the criticism of the communist party's failed experiment and its reception reminds me of another book I read a few years ago -- "The Doomed City" by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky. Though written ~40 years later it also plays very heavily on the theme of an experiment out of control or under unknown control. I think in general you don't read much Scifi, but I really recommend "The Doomed City" (Град Обреченный) to you if you haven't read it. Thank you again for a fantastic, thought-provoking analysis in your video!

[@citation8378]

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[@bookishtopics]

Спасибо большое за Ваши теплые слова и поддержку :) У меня на данный момент нет никаких других социальных сетей.

[@jillwhitneybirk]

Miss you and your videos a lot! I hope you are ok and doing well. Hope to see you back on booktube soon. ❤️

[@DebMcDonald]

Thanks for all your research into this excellent novella! I have read it twice and missed so much. I didn’t understand the title in the way you explained it and the biblical references went right over my head. I usually notice religious themes and am embarrassed that I didn’t get them. Have you seen the Russian movie? I think it’s still on KZbin. The man who played Sharik is a genius. Another question - why do you say Sharikov when he is a person? Forgive my ignorance of Russian.

[@Boris_Matijevic]

Great review Tanya. 👏

[@romelmadrayart]

I have a question regarding heart Of A Dog - i notice that Bulgakov changes voices from chapter 1 to 2 chapters. Is this an error?is it a stylistic choice, is it the norm and why would an author employ such a technique? it seems like an odd technique to shift from 1st person to 3rd person omnipotent and in the 3rd chapter there is a shift between 3rd person and 1st person in the same chapter and along the same train of thought. is there a reason he employed this technique? for example it shifts in chapter 3 from 3rd person to "I am handsome. Perhaps I'm really a dog prince". would this be considered a surrealist technique for literature? Was there an overriding principle that made him use these multiple POV techniques ?

[@Necusenikakozvatinayt9178]

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[@madhsc]

How have you aquired this astonishing skin face? Is it the camera lens or the light? It is incredibly sane, clean and I wonder how do you heal, feed your skin to make it look like this? (Yeah, completely off topic sorry)

[@AbiofPellinor]

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[@AsyaBell]

Girl, what an awesome video! Thank you so much for the hard work you put into it! I am having a Twitch stream on "a Heart of a Dog" tomorrow and I was watching your video to better understand the novella. I was trying to invite you to join me on my stream, but I couldn't find your contacts and my previous comment with my email was deleted. So if tomorrow or anytime in the future you would like to join me - feel free to check my "about" page for my contacts. :) It would be a great pleasure for me and my audience to meet you!

[@waltonsmith7210]

I appreciate the humor, but the book really did seem to have some elitist perspectives that I'm not a fan of. I can see why it was censored. Comparing the working class to a dog is not cool. Without them those privileged "true laborers" would have nothing. Also the socialists didn't set the classes against each other, the old system had already set them against each other, or there would have been no need for the revolution.If the people weren't "ready", blame the tsar and the previous ruling classes, not the communists.And rich people don't work hard, they exploit hard lol. The kulaks were hoarding grain during a famine. The revolution didnt fail, it really did modernize the country, gave unprecedented rights to women and workers, turned a backwards agricultural pseudo medieval nation into an industrialized superpower, and spread literacy. Most people couldnt read under the tsarist regime. You talk about giving the proletariats freedom as if them being denied freedom was somehow "natural" and thats fucked up. There's no non artificial way to free your country from a ruling class, it has to be a revolution

[@lunaanogiati7481]

I find this explanation unfortunatly quite flat, and based on an interpretation of the characters that implies Bulgakow being for the white army and against the red, which is incorrect. He critisises, as you say, the ways the communist party forced education on poor people, but not because he thought that poor=dumb (what you say in your video), but because he knew forcing humans to "be" a certain way (as they do with Sharik) does not bring them to learn anything. I am quite sad, that you didn't talk about the brutality and cruelty the doctor brought upon Sharik, as Shariks reaction to him (later on), seems quite natural to me (because he got forced to "be" this or that way). Apparently the Doctor himself thinks he is God, otherwise he would not experiment with living creatures and the fact that he understands he did a mistake (at the end), shows the critisism that Bulgakow wanted these elite class to bring upon themselves.

[@wolandbegemotazazello]

Excellent...the Frankensteinian state...