Heart of a Dog

Paperback, 82 pages

English language

Published Jan. 21, 1994 by Grove Press.

ISBN:
9780802150592

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5 stars (2 reviews)

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

  • Modern fiction
  • Russian & Former Soviet Union
  • Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Fiction
  • General
  • Fiction / General