The Heart of a Dog

A world-famous Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and resolves to achieve a daring scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a recently deceased 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 behond endurance…

As with his later masterpiece, The Master and Margarita, Bulgakov’s early novel combines outrageously grotesque ideas with a narrative of deadpan naturalism. Hilarious and thought-provoking it can be read as a fierce parable of the Russion Revolution, or simply as an absurd and superbly comic story.

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