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The Heart of a Dog

The Heart of a Dog

by Mikhail Bulgakov, Michael Glenny
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Bulgakov here assaults the dour utilitarian lives of Soviet citizens with a defiant, boisterous display of nonsense- The Times A 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 Times A marvellous writer- Michael Frayne

Book Details

ISBN13 9780099479338
ISBN10 0099479338
Series/Work OL260422W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher Vintage Books
Pages 128
Language EN-GB
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At January 30, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

Subjects

891.73/42 891.7342 Animal experimentation Animal experimentation--soviet union--fiction Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author) Dogs Dogs--fiction Fiction Fiction, general Fiction, historical, general Fiction, humorous Fiction, satire General History Literature Moscow (russia), fiction OverDrive Pg3476.b78 Pg3476.b78 a2 2007 Slavic philology

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