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Item Details
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THE HEART OF A DOG
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| By: |
Mikhail Bulgakov |
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Paperback |
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£5.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1860466400 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781860466403 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
18 February, 1999 |
| Pages: |
128 |
| Translated from: |
Russian |
| Description: |
A famous Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and resolves to achieve a daring scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary of a dead man. But the experiment goes disastrously wrong and the professor's hitherto charmed life turns into a nightmare. |
| Synopsis: |
A world-famous Moscow professor -- rich, successful, and violently envied by his neighbors -- befriends a stray dog and resolves to achieve a daring scientific "first" by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary grand 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 The Master and Margarita, 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. The Heart of the Dog can be read as an absurd and wonderfully comic story; it can also be read as a fierce parable of the Russian Revolution. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
The Harvill Press |
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Non-returnable |
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