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Михаилъ Аѳанасьевичъ Булгаковъ: The heart of a dog (1968, Collins; Harvill P.)

128 pages

English language

Published Oct. 29, 1968 by Collins; Harvill P..

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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.

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  • Soviet Union -- Fiction