Sobachʹe serdt︠s︡e

fantasticheskie povesti Russkiĭ stilʹ

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Sobachʹe serdt︠s︡e (Russian language, 2001, Kristall)

221 pages

Russian language

Published Oct. 29, 2001 by Kristall.

ISBN:
978-5-306-00230-9
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5 stars (2 reviews)

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.

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The metamorphosis reimagined by a neuroendrocrinologist not too fond of the Bolsheviks?

5 stars

There seems to be a pattern in my favourite works being written by (practising/former) medics who’d rather not put their opinions out there under their own name… (Looking at you Doyle)

5/5 Simple, witty and sublime in one.