Bulgakov’s depiction of blasé, incompetent officialdom resonates across the ages and all forms of government
Vladimir Persikov’s wife runs off with an opera singer, she leaves him a note. “An unbearable shudder of revulsion is aroused in me by your frogs,” she tells him. In “The Fatal Eggs”, a little-known novella by Mikhail Bulgakov, a pestilence spawned by the professor’s zoological research threatens not just his marriage, but civilisation itself.
In his laboratory in Moscow, Persikov discovers a “ray of life” that makes amoebae and tadpoles reproduce at speed. Thrilled, he orders extra kit from Germany and exotic eggs from across the Atlantic . Foreign powers covet the new technology, but the Soviet state requisitions it to help kick-start poultry production.
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