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Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков, Richard Pipes: The Heart of a Dog (Paperback, 1997, Harvill Press)

Paperback, 128 pages

English language

Published Jan. 29, 1997 by Harvill Press.

ISBN:
978-1-86046-083-8
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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.

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Subjects

  • Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union
  • History - General History