144 pages
Undetermined language
Published Jan. 1, 2007 by PENGUIN BOOKS, Penguin Classic, imusti, Penguin.
DOG'S HEART: AN APPALLING STORY; TRANS. BY ANDREW BROMFIELD.
an appalling story Penguin classics
3 stars
(1 review)
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 KURKOVA 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.
Subjects
- Animal experimentation -- Soviet Union -- Fiction.
- Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Fiction.