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The Heart of a Dog
Mikhail Bulgakov
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Description for The Heart of a Dog
Paperback. A 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. Translator(s): Glenny, Michael. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 112.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ANDREY KURKOV
A 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.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099529941
SKU
V9780099529941
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About Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) was born and educated in Kiev where he graduated as a doctor in 1916. He rapidly abandoned medicine to write some of the greatest Russian literature of this century. After a lifetime at odds with the stultifying Soviet regime, he died impoverished and blind in 1940, shortly after completing his masterpiece, The Master and Margarita. None of ... Read more
Reviews for The Heart of a Dog
As high-spirited as it is pointed. Unlike so much satire, it has a splendid sense of fun
Irish Times
A marvellous writer
Michael Frayn Bulgakov here assaults the dour utilitarian lives of Soviet citizens with a defiant, boisterous display of nonsense
The Times
Irish Times
A marvellous writer
Michael Frayn Bulgakov here assaults the dour utilitarian lives of Soviet citizens with a defiant, boisterous display of nonsense
The Times