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The Heart Of A Dog Mikhail Bulgakov

The Heart Of A Dog By Mikhail Bulgakov

The Heart Of A Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov


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Summary

A famous Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and resolves to achieve a daring scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary of a dead man. But the experiment goes disastrously wrong and the professor's hitherto charmed life turns into a nightmare.

The Heart Of A Dog Summary

The Heart Of A Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov

A stray dog, bedraggled and weary, is about to perish on a cold Moscow night when it is found by a rich and successful medical professor who takes it home. The professor is already involved in the process of rejuvenating people through hormonal implantation and now he is about to embark on a strange experiment. He transplants the testicles and pituitary gland of a dead man into the dog s body. Gradually the dog begins to change into half-animal, half-man, a creature which the professor calls Poligraph Poligraphovich Sharik. Sharik now has his own agenda. He fits very well into the new proletarian society and soon turns the professor s hitherto respectable life into a nightmare beyond endurance. Bulgakov s short novel succeeds both as a wonderfully high-spirited piece of comic fiction and as an absurdist parable of life in a Soviet society determined to remake its citizens through social experimentation.

Additional information

GOR001249369
9781860466403
1860466400
The Heart Of A Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Vintage Publishing
1999-02-18
128
N/A
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