The Heart of a Dog

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

People: Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940)

Places: Soviet Union,  Russia

Times: Revolution, 1917-1921