The Heart Of A Dog

Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrey Kurkov, Michael Glenny

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English

Vintage
01 June 2009

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Fiction in translation

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.

By: Mikhail Bulgakov
Introduction by: Andrey Kurkov
Translated by: Michael Glenny
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 108g
ISBN: 9780099529941
ISBN 10: 0099529947
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 01 June 2009
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mikhail Bulgakov (1891 - 1940) was born and educated in Kiev where he graduated as a doctor in 1916. He rapidly abandoned medicine to write some of the greatest Russian literature of this century. After a lifetime at odds with the stultifying Soviet regime, he died impoverished and blind in 1940, shortly after completing his masterpiece, The Master and Margarita. None of his major fiction was published during his lifetime.

Reviews 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 *