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The Heart of a Dog

Mikhail Bulgakov

  • 130 pages · about 2 hours
  • First published 1968
  • 69 editions
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1 About this book

A superb comic masterpiece and fierce parable of the Russian Revolution by the author of The Master and Margarita. With a New Introduction by Andrey Kurkova rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a recently deceased man.

A distinctly worryingly human animal is now on the loose, and the professor's hitherto respectable life becomes a nightmare beyond endurance. An absurd and superbly comic story, this classic novel can also be read as a fierce parable of the Russian Revolution.

Good for readers who want: humor, satire, dogs, and a short read.

  • Soviet union, history
  • Dogs
  • Humor
  • Satire
  • Animal experimentation
  • Slavic philology
  • Soviet union
  • Moscow (russia)

2 About Mikhail Bulgakov

1891–1940

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov ( buul-GAH-kof; Russian: Михаи́л Афана́сьевич Булга́ков, IPA: 15 May [O.S. 3 May] 1891 – 10 March 1940) was a Russian and Soviet novelist and playwright. His novel The Master and Margarita, published posthumously, has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century. He also wrote the novel The White Guard and the plays Ivan Vasilievich, Flight (also called The Run), and The Days of the Turbins.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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