The Fatal Eggs

The Fatal Eggs is a science-fiction novella by Mikhail Bulgakov, a Soviet novelist and playwright whose most famous work is The Master and Margarita. It was written in 1924 and first published in 1925. The book became quite popular, but was much criticised by some Soviet critics as a satire of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the leadership of Soviet Russia. By 1924, Bulgakov was relatively well-known as a writer. He had published several short stories, including Dyavoliada, in some ways a pre-cursor to Master and Margarita, and started publishing his first novel, The White Guard. The... Fatal Eggs was finished in early October 1924 and published in the Nedra journal in February 1925; a shortened edition was also published in May–June 1925 in the Krasnaya Panorama journal, under the title The Ray of Life . Bulgakov also read the novel on several occasions to various social gatherings, where it met with favourable reception. The Fatal Eggs can be described as a science fiction novel. Its main protagonist is an aging zoologist, Vladimir Ipat'evich Persikov, a specialist in amphibians.
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