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Heart of a Dog

Mikhail Bulgakov

Paperback | Pages: 123 pages

Rating: 4.1 | 38381 Users | 1792 Reviews

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Original Title:	Собачье сердце
ISBN:	0802150594 (ISBN13: 9780802150592)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Philip Philipovich Preobrazhensky, Poligraph Poligraphovich Sharikov
Setting:	Moscow(Russian Federation) Russia

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Mikhail Bulgakov's absurdist parable of the Russian Revolution.

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 seen as a fierce parable of the Russian Revolution.

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Title	:	Heart of a Dog
Author	:	Mikhail Bulgakov
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 123 pages
Published	:	January 21st 1994 by Grove Press (first published 1925)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Russia. Classics. Literature. Russian Literature. Science Fiction

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A dog with no real name feebly walks his last steps in the cold winters day in Moscow of the 1920's, unloved like many strays in the uncaring city, hungry, filthy with no future, he has not eaten in two days, injured by a man full of hate throwing boiling water at him which burns his side , why ? Just a nuisance to all businessmen, the wandering mutt needed only a little nourishment nobody else gives a second look towards the dying, suffering two year old, the whimpering animal last hours are

If your only acquaintance with Bulgakov is Master and Margarita then Heart of a Dog will come as a surprise. It is one of several science out of control, possibly influenced by Jules Verne and H.G. Wells stories.However what is not to like about this mad scientist story about how things go horribly wrong when the pituitary gland and testicles of a dead man are transplanted into a stray dog? Behold the Soviet new man constructed from death and a dog. No wonder that the opera going, traditionally

Mikhail Bulgakov is one of the most overlooked Russian satirists/geniuses of the 20th century.Ive read two works of his now, and both have floored me with the scathing cleverness of their satire, the sheer originality of their ideas, and the fact that both these Russian texts written during Stalins reign are instantly accessible to the modern reader.The Heart of a Dog (1925) is a short blast against the New Soviet Man a comment on the declining power of Communism and the changing tides in the

This book has been on my 'bucket list' for a long time. Part allegory and part dystopian fiction it examines the connection between class struggle and the role social stratification plays in the formation of society. Poligraf Poligrafovich Sharikov was a 'dog' who was forced to become a 'man' through an experiment he had no control over. But what kind of man he becomes is a question that must be looked at from many differing perspectives. No wonder this novel was banned in the Soviet Union for

Growing up in Australia you tend to have friends whose language background is something other than English. I have friends who are Greek, Italian, Russian, Ukrainian, Yugoslav, Hungarian, Czech, Polish, Dutch, Lebanese but one of the things that would sometimes happen is that one of them would tell me a joke, a joke that they had basically translated into English from their own language. Now, some of these are jokes I can remember to this day. A Russian friend once told me something from a

"The whole horror of the situation is that he now has a human heart, not a dog's heart. And about the rottenest heart in all creation!"The recipe for success a la Bulgakov:# Take a street dog, hungry and flea-ridden and wickedly smart (yes, he can even read - you gotta do that to survive on the cruel winter Moscow streets!). # Take a brilliant and renown professor with a knack for brain surgery/transplants and desire to advance science. # Add to the mix a dead good-for-nothing delinquent