A Dead Man’s Memoir
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A Dog's Heart
Published in Russia in 1965, Andrew Bromfield's translation was published by Penguin in 2007.
The novel
A Dead Man’s Memoir is a semi-autobiographical story about a writer who fails to sell his novel, then fails to commit suicide. When the writer’s play is taken up for production in a theater, literary success beckons, but he is not prepared to reckon with the grotesquely inflated egos of the actors, directors, and theater managers.