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Heart of A Dog

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Heart of A Dog

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Author: Mikhail Bulgakov
Publisher: Original Russian publication, 1987
Grove Press, 1968
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Heart of A Dog

Heart of A Dog

Lenfilm Studio
2/25/2018

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Synopsis

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 first 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 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 a Dog can be read as an absurd and wonderfully comic story; it can also be read as a fierce parable of the Russian Revolution.

Originally written in 1925, Heart of A Dog wasn't officially published in Russia until 1987 because of state censorship.


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