The meaning and summary: "The Dog's Heart" is a story outside of time

After reading the words: "Summary," The Heart of a Dog, "you can only sarcastically smile. What can be the "summary" of a classic work without time, which is projected onto the past and present of a huge country? The author, the son of a professor of theology, possessed the unique gift of the Aesopian style.

But it's all written about us, today's! Have not grown-up people ever witnessed a misanthropic grin when a lawyer "condemns the innocent" when an educator, striking out the life path of talented people, takes for free education "on call", when the doctor, seeing a thin purse, forgets about the Hippocratic oath? Sharikovs were artificially implanted, but really a viable mutation of our people. By the way, starting to write on the well-known copywriter template, only a miracle can be given. Let me ask: "What could be the" short story of the "Dog Heart", if it really is a story? Let's set ourselves the task-maximum-to show, reveal, describe, maybe even a slightly unexpected interpretation of Bulgakov's story in a few lines.

Is it not with a fracture of history, namely, not with the October Revolution of 1917 , the very operation of the dog, conducted by an intellectual, a "world luminary" by Professor Preobrazhensky, is associated? If this is so, then the "Dog Heart" is a brief summary of our history. Violent act, when revolting intellectual revolutionaries broke the natural course of the history of the Russian state by "appointing" the hegemon the worst part of the working class. "Having nothing," the lumpen proletariat, chronically unable to add or multiply, but only to divide and take away. It is in this environment that the cohort of the "Sharikovs" originates.

By the way, the book ironically shows the role of the domestic intelligentsia. On the one hand, Professor Preobrazhensky has an impressive intellectual baggage, correct views on the arrangement of the world. On the other hand, he earns a living by only operations, helping the implanted sex glands of the monkeys to go on with debauchery. With the third - it was with his ideas that he "initiated" Sharikov.

Bulgakov, like an artist, paints several epigrams in an epoch, its brief content. The dog's heart is embedded, it has humanized and beats. Following the logic of the story, Polygraph Polygraphovich Sharikov at first only potentially, at the level of reflexes, with contempt and hatred applies to everything human - culture, courtesy, respect. At first, he makes a career and experiences his boiling hatred on cats, having received the post of head of the urban sub-department of cleaning up stray animals to "choke them." But then he pragmatically begins to further clear his living space, his further "runway", writing a denunciation for the physical destruction of his benefactor Preobrazhensky. At last his real grin appears, he begins to threaten with a pistol. This is the summary. "The Heart of a Dog" reduces everything to a "happy end": Dr. Bormental and Professor Preobrazhensky, having put in physical efforts and having completed the operation, returned Sharikov to the initial state. How simple and elegant! Recall that the action of this fantastic story takes place in 1925 - 1926 gg. But did it happen in our history? By no means. Having learned the smell of blood, the "Sharikovs" staged a real bloody feast in the 1930s ... Up to the age of 50, those who were disliked were choked, like unhappy cats, "cleaning the cities". And what is striking is that the values expressed "from the author" by Professor Preobrazhensky have not become the yardstick of the life of our entire society. Turn on the TV, peer into the news. How often the impudent, boorish trampling of the reasonable and just, still wins. Sharikov forever!

So is the expression "summary" applicable to this work? "Dog heart" - multidimensional, it made and makes you think about society, about the role of true culture and traditions, about the future. Let us recall the monologue of Zinovy Gerdt from the immortal film based on the novel of the Weiner brothers about the future "era of mercy", the importance of the present change for each of their souls, hearts, and minds, so that calm and kindness may reign there.