Heart of a Dog
by Bulgakov, Mikhail
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About This Item
New York: Grove Press, 1968. New Book. Paperback
146 pp.
First US edition. Second printing.
This hilarious, brilliantly inventive novel by the author of The Master and Margarita tells the story of a scroungy Moscow mongrel named Sharik. Thanks to the skills of a renowned Soviet scientist and the transplanted pituitary gland and testes of a petty criminal, Sharik is transformed into a lecherous, vulgar man who spouts Engels and inevitably finds his niche in the bureaucracy as the government official in charge of purging the city of cats.
Condition: very good
Translator: Mirra Gisnburg.
146 pp.
First US edition. Second printing.
This hilarious, brilliantly inventive novel by the author of The Master and Margarita tells the story of a scroungy Moscow mongrel named Sharik. Thanks to the skills of a renowned Soviet scientist and the transplanted pituitary gland and testes of a petty criminal, Sharik is transformed into a lecherous, vulgar man who spouts Engels and inevitably finds his niche in the bureaucracy as the government official in charge of purging the city of cats.
Condition: very good
Translator: Mirra Gisnburg.
Synopsis
Heart of a Dog is a biting satire of the New Soviet man, written in 1925 at the height of the NEP period, when Communism appeared to be weakening in the Soviet Union. It is "one of novelist Mikhail Bulgakov's most beloved stories" featuring a stray dog "named Sharik who takes human form as a slovenly proletarian. " It also features Professor Filip Filippovich Preobrazhensky who implants a human pituitary gland and testicles into Sharik.
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- Globus Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16098
- Title
- Heart of a Dog
- Author
- Bulgakov, Mikhail
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- Собачье сердце Булгаков
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