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Heart of a Dog (2009, Penguin Random House)

144 pages

English language

Published Nov. 7, 2009 by Penguin Random House.

ISBN:
978-0-09-952994-1
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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

  • Fiction, humorous
  • Soviet union, history, revolution, 1917-1921, fiction