This early novella from Mikhail Bulgakov, published in 1925, already shows the surreal
comic genius that later produced The Master and Margarita, the writer's masterpiece.
A kind of Frankenstein parable, Heart of a Dog is the story of a stray dog that gains
a human intelligence after a prominent Moscow professor transplants human glands into
the unfortunate canine's body. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable
edition of this title.

Review
Dystopian novelette by Mikhail Bulgakov, written in Russian in 1925 as Sobachye serdtse.
It was published posthumously in the West in 1968, both in Russian and in translation,
and in the Soviet Union in 1987. The book is a satirical examination of one of the goals
of the October Revolution of 1917: to create a new breed of man, uncorrupted by the past
and above petit bourgeois concerns. In addressing this subject The Heart of a Dog savages
the rigid Soviet mind-set, science fiction, and a pseudoscientific theory of the 1920s
that held out the promise of sexual rejuvenation through surgical transplantation of
monkey glands. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature

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