A Dog's Heart

In Mikhail Bulgakov's satirical novella, a celebrated Moscow professor undertakes a daring scientific experiment: transplanting human testicles and a pituitary gland into a stray dog. The unexpected and grotesque result is a creature that rapidly transforms into a worryingly human animal, plunging the professor's once respectable life into an escalating nightmare.
Why You Should Read?
Explores themes of scientific ethics, identity, and the perils of human intervention in nature.
Offers a potent and darkly comic satire on the Russian Revolution and early Soviet society.
Combines outrageous ideas with a deadpan narrative, characteristic of Bulgakov's unique literary style.
Considered a significant precursor to his later masterpiece,
The Master and Margarita
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