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Heart of a Dog

Mikhail Bulgakov

Paperback | Pages: 123 pages

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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	:	Deluxe 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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What a brilliant piece of Russian literature 'The Heart of a Dog' by Mikhail Bulgakov is. Highly recommended to all my friends on here. This is one I'll most certainly be picking up again.

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

"A dog is hard to kill, his spirit clings to life."This was assigned as a short reading for my Soviet Russian history class. Both bizarre satire and animal parallel akin to Felidae in its reflection of historical times, Heart of a Dog is a strange and at times even violent story, but a good one. Reflecting the tensions that were in Russia at the time of its writing, Heart of a Dog tells the story of Sharik (Шарик), a starving stray who always seems to suffer the brunt of abuse and mistreatment

Can you say "Booby Brash Bolsheviks" three times fast, comrades? If not, you can surely howl with laughter. Ooow-ow-ooow-owow!Operating on animals to effect a transform in a humanly direction has been around for some time. In novels, that is. Theres H.G. Wells The Island of Doctor Moreau published in 1896 and Kristen Bakis less well known 1997 Lives of the Monster Dogs, a bizarre, creepy story of humanoid German shepherds strolling Manhattan as rich aristocrats.Another such novel on the list,



A Dog's Heart (or, The Heart of a Dog) still bites strongly with sharp teeth after so much time, and, unlike a lot of other Russian golden oldies that feel old, this could have been written yesterday. Bulgakov's satire of life in the early years of the Soviet Union cost himself dear, and it has not lost any of its provocative power. I even preferred this to his ever so popular Master and Margarita.Giving a reading of A Dog's Heart in his Moscow apartment - March 1925, he introduced to a group of

There is a photograph of me sitting in a gutter in Paris reading this novel. I am rather skinny in the photo. What isn't conveyed is that I was losing my mind. I was abroad and it was a mistake. There was considerable business requiring my immediate attention back home. There I was. All was resolved upon my return. I think about the novel periodically, especially given the currency of Bulgakov in certain circles. It would be pithy to suppose that this portal concerning transformation was crucial