The Heart Of A Dog
  • Published: 1 June 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099529941
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $19.99

The Heart Of A Dog

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1 Jun 2009
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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 KURKOV

A 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.
  • Published: 1 June 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099529941
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $19.99
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About the author

Mikhail Bulgakov

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov was a Russian, later Soviet writer, medical doctor, and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his novel The Master and Margarita, published posthumously, which has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century

Also by Mikhail Bulgakov

The Master and Margarita (Vintage Classic Russians Series)
A Country Doctor's Notebook
Diaboliad
A Dead Man's Memoir (A Theatrical Novel)
A Dog's Heart
The White Guard
Black Snow
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Praise for The Heart Of A Dog

As high-spirited as it is pointed. Unlike so much satire, it has a splendid sense of fun

Irish Times

A marvellous writer

Michael Frayn

Bulgakov here assaults the dour utilitarian lives of Soviet citizens with a defiant, boisterous display of nonsense

The Times
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