num_pages: 128
description: 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 read as a fierce parable of the Russian Revolution.
language: English
title: The Heart Of A Dog
titlecomplete: The Heart Of A Dog
characters: Darya Petrovna Ivanova, Poligraph Poligraphovich Sharikov, Dr. Philip Philipovich Preobrazhensky, Zinaida Prokofievna Bunina, Dr. Ivan Arnoldovich Bormenthal, Schwonder
genres: Russian Literature, Fiction, Humor, Russia, 20th Century, Literature, Fantasy, Classics, Novels, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 56490
places: Soviet Union, Moscow, Russia
publisher: HARVILL PRESS