Heart of a Dog

Paperback. Pub the Date: January. 1994 Pages: 82 in Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing. Mikhail the Bulgakov's the 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 ...