TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Bulgakov, Mikhail
AU  - Bouis, Antonina W.
TI  - A dog's heart
SN  - 9781847495686 
AV  - PG3476.B78 S41 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Richmond, Surrey
PB  - Alma Classics
KW  - Animal experimentation
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - History
KW  - Revolution, 1917-1921
KW  - Moscow (Russia)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Historical fiction
N1  - Translated from the Russian
N2  - 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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