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Mikhail Bulgakov's absurdist parable of the Russian Revolution. A world-famous Moscow professor -- rich, successful, and violently envied by his neighbors -- befriends a stray dog and resolves to achieve a daring scientific <i>first</i> by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a dead man. But the results are wholly unexpected: a distinctly and worryingly human animal is on the loose, and the professor's hitherto respectable life becomes a nightmare beyond endurance. As in <i>The Master and Margarita</i>, the masterpiece he completed shortly before his death, Mikhail Bulgakov's early novel, written in 1925, combines outrageously grotesque ideas with a narrative of deadpan naturalism. <i>The Heart of a Dog</i> can be read as an absurd and wonderfully comic story; it can also be seen as a fierce parable of the Russian Revolution.
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Heart of a Dog, Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 1987
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- Titolo
- Heart of a Dog
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Editore
- Grove Press
- Pubblicato
- 1987
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 123
- ISBN10
- 0802150594
- ISBN13
- 9780802150592
- Serie
- Tag
- Narrativa, Umorismo, Fantascienza, Classici, Racconti, XX Secolo, Russia, Cani, Novelletti, Letteratura Russa, Satira, Realismo magico
- Descrizione
- Mikhail Bulgakov's absurdist parable of the Russian Revolution. A world-famous Moscow professor -- rich, successful, and violently envied by his neighbors -- befriends a stray dog and resolves to achieve a daring scientific <i>first</i> by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a dead man. But the results are wholly unexpected: a distinctly and worryingly human animal is on the loose, and the professor's hitherto respectable life becomes a nightmare beyond endurance. As in <i>The Master and Margarita</i>, the masterpiece he completed shortly before his death, Mikhail Bulgakov's early novel, written in 1925, combines outrageously grotesque ideas with a narrative of deadpan naturalism. <i>The Heart of a Dog</i> can be read as an absurd and wonderfully comic story; it can also be seen as a fierce parable of the Russian Revolution.