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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 <i>first</i> 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 <i>The Master and Margarita</i>, 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. <i>The Heart of a Dog</i> 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, Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov
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- Released
- 1987
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- Title
- Heart of a Dog
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Released
- 1987
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 123
- ISBN10
- 0802150594
- ISBN13
- 9780802150592
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Humor, Sci-Fi, Classics, Short Stories, 20th century, Russia, Dogs, Novellas, Russian Literature, Satire, Magical Realism
- 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 <i>first</i> 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 <i>The Master and Margarita</i>, 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. <i>The Heart of a Dog</i> can be read as an absurd and wonderfully comic story; it can also be seen as a fierce parable of the Russian Revolution.