Title: Собачье сердце
First published: January 21, 1994
Description: 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.
Subjects: Fiction, Literature, Animal experimentation, History, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Soviet union, history, revolution, 1917-1921, fiction, General, Dogs, Fiction, humorous, Slavic philology, Fiction, historical, general, Soviet union, fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, satire, Moscow (russia), fiction, Animal experimentation--soviet union--fiction, Pg3476.b78 a2 2007, 891.7342, Dogs--fiction, Pg3476.b78, 891.73/42, Russian fiction
Places: Soviet Union, Russia
People: Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940)
Time periods: Revolution, 1917-1921