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Mikhail Bulgakov's absurdist parable of the Russian Revolution. A world-famous Moscow professor -- rich, successful, and violently envied by his neighbors -- befriends a stray dog and resolves to achieve a daring scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a dead man. But the results are wholly unexpected: a distinctly and worryingly human animal is on the loose, and the professor's hitherto respectable life becomes a nightmare beyond endurance. As in The Master and Margarita , the masterpiece he completed shortly before his death, Mikhail Bulgakov's early novel, written in 1925, combines outrageously grotesque ideas with a narrative of deadpan naturalism. The Heart of a Dog can be read as an absurd and wonderfully comic story; it can also be seen as a fierce parable of the Russian Revolution.
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Heart of a Dog, Michail Afanasjevič Bulgakov
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- Released
- 1987
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- Heart of a Dog
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Michail Afanasjevič Bulgakov
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Released
- 1987
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 123
- ISBN10
- 0802150594
- ISBN13
- 9780802150592
- Series
- Tags
- Nature, Animals, Politics, Short Stories, Fun, Gifts for men, Russia, Dogs, Adapted for Film, Novellas, Social Critique, Russian Literature, Satire, Psychological novels, Communism, Bilingual Edition, Soviet Union, Transformation, Experiments (Science), Surrealism, Moscow, Fantastic, Stories About Dogs, Man and Dog, Grotesque, Allegory, Transplantation
- First published
- 1925
- Original title
- Собачье сердце (Sobačje sjerdce)
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- Mikhail Bulgakov's absurdist parable of the Russian Revolution. A world-famous Moscow professor -- rich, successful, and violently envied by his neighbors -- befriends a stray dog and resolves to achieve a daring scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a dead man. But the results are wholly unexpected: a distinctly and worryingly human animal is on the loose, and the professor's hitherto respectable life becomes a nightmare beyond endurance. As in The Master and Margarita , the masterpiece he completed shortly before his death, Mikhail Bulgakov's early novel, written in 1925, combines outrageously grotesque ideas with a narrative of deadpan naturalism. The Heart of a Dog can be read as an absurd and wonderfully comic story; it can also be seen as a fierce parable of the Russian Revolution.