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Mikhail Bulgakov's absurdist parable of the Russian Revolution.
Grove Press
August 1987
82 pages
ISBN: 0802150594
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Fantasy | Fiction
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.
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