A Dog's Heart (Modern Voices)
- List Price: $12.95
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Hesperus Press Ltd
- Publish date: 04/29/2005
Description:
Mikhail Bulgakov's A Dog's Heart is an inspired satire on the Russian Revolution and on Soviet society. Through his surreal, often grotesque humour, Bulgakov creates an ingenious new twist to the 'Frankenstein' parable. Having been scalded by boiling water earlier that day, and with little chance to survive the severe winter night, a stray dog is left for dead on the streets. Lamenting his fate, he is ill prepared for the chance arrival of a wealthy professor who befriends him and takes him home. However, it seems the professor's motives are not entirely altruistic - an expert in medical experimentation, he sees his new charge as the potential subject for a bizarre operation, and implants glands from a dead criminal in the dog. The resulting half-man, half-beast is, as to be expected, a monstrosity, yet one that fits in remarkably well with Soviet society...
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