num_pages: 128
description: Bulgakov here assaults the dour utilitarian lives of Soviet citizens with a defiant, boisterous display of nonsense - The TimesA rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray 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.As high-spirited as it is pointed. Unlike so much satire, it has a splendid sense of fun - Irish TimesA marvellous writer - Michael Frayne
language: English
title: The Heart of a Dog
titlecomplete: The Heart of a Dog
characters: Poligraph Poligraphovich Sharikov, Zinaida Prokofievna Bunina, Schwonder, Dr. Ivan Arnoldovich Bormenthal, Dr. Philip Philipovich Preobrazhensky, Darya Petrovna Ivanova
genres: Classics, Fantasy, Russia, Humor, Novels, Russian Literature, 20th Century, Literature, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 56472
places: Moscow, Soviet Union, Russia
publisher: Vintage Books