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The Fatal Eggs and Other Soviet Satire 1918-1963 by Ilya Ilf, Mirra Ginsburg, Yevgeny Petrov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Mikhail Zoščenko, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Yuri Kazakov, Valentin Katayev

sookieskipper's review

3.0

An odd read even for Bulgakov. The clever and budgeted writer that he is, slows down the narration in the second half of this tiny book. The novella starts off as a hilarious satire on absurd investigations under the guise of science. A bland look on the bureaucratic nonsense that surrounds a professor and his "frog egg" investigation, Bulgakov gently points at the Russian secret police, propaganda politics and the headaches that come with insipid helpers.

Enjoyed but didn't love.