A dog's heart / Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov ; translated by Antonina W. Bouis.

By:

Bulgakov, Mikhail, 1891-1940 [author]

Contributor(s):

Bouis, Antonina W [translator]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Russian Publication details: Richmond, Surrey : Alma Classics, 2016.Description: xiii, 161 pages ; 20 cm.ISBN:

9781847495686

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Historical fiction

LOC classification:

PG3476.B78 S41 2016

Summary: When a stray dog dying on the streets of Moscow is taken in by a wealthy professor, he is subjected to medical experiments in which he receives various transplants of human organs. As he begins to transform into a rowdy, unkempt human by the name of Poligraf Poligrafovich Sharikov, his actions distress the professor and those surrounding him, although he finds himself accepted into the ranks of the Soviet state. A parodic reworking of the Frankenstein myth and a vicious satire of the Communist revolution and the concept of the New Soviet man, A Dog's Heart was banned by the censors in 1925 and circulated only in samizdat form. Nowadays, this hugely entertaining tale has become very popular in Russia, and has inspired many adaptations across the world.

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When a stray dog dying on the streets of Moscow is taken in by a wealthy professor, he is subjected to medical experiments in which he receives various transplants of human organs. As he begins to transform into a rowdy, unkempt human by the name of Poligraf Poligrafovich Sharikov, his actions distress the professor and those surrounding him, although he finds himself accepted into the ranks of the Soviet state. A parodic reworking of the Frankenstein myth and a vicious satire of the Communist revolution and the concept of the New Soviet man, A Dog's Heart was banned by the censors in 1925 and circulated only in samizdat form. Nowadays, this hugely entertaining tale has become very popular in Russia, and has inspired many adaptations across the world.