num_pages: 116
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 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: A Dog's Heart
titlecomplete: A Dog's Heart
characters: Poligraph Poligraphovich Sharikov, Dr. Ivan Arnoldovich Bormenthal, Dr. Philip Philipovich Preobrazhensky, Zinaida Prokofievna Bunina, Schwonder, Darya Petrovna Ivanova
genres: 20th Century, Fantasy, Russian Literature, Literature, Novels, Humor, Russia, Classics, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 56503
places: Russia, Moscow, Soviet Union
publisher: Penguin Classic