The Fatal Eggs

The MediaBook Studio presents the audiobook "The Fatal Eggs" by Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov — an outstanding Russian writer of the Soviet era, a classic of world literature, playwright, theatre director, and actor. He created novels, novellas and short stories, plays, film scripts, and many feuilletons of the 1920s, and is rightly considered one of the most famous Russian authors. His works have been translated into almost every language in the world. Bulgakov’s plays, especially "Zoyka’s Apartment", "Flight", and "The Days of the Turbins", have been staged in theatres in various countries for many decades and have been adapted for the screen more than forty times.

The book is narrated by the popular performer and well-known dubbing actor Sergey Gorbunov.

"The Fatal Eggs" is a fantastic novella that is at the same time hauntingly recognizable and believable. The listener is in for a special atmosphere conveyed through Bulgakov’s concise and multilayered language, precise allegories and meanings, and bitter, merciless humour.

Scientist Persikov discovers a "ray of life" capable of accelerating the development of living organisms many times over. This discovery is intended to be used by the head of the state farm, Alexander Semyonovich Rokk. He orders crates of chicken eggs from abroad, but due to a fatal mix-up, eggs of snakes, crocodiles, and ostriches arrive at the state farm. Having multiplied monstrously fast and reached incredible sizes, they head toward Moscow....

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