Meer over het boek
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 <i>first</i> 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 <i>The Master and Margarita</i>, 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. <i>The Heart of a Dog</i> can be read as an absurd and wonderfully comic story; it can also be seen as a fierce parable of the Russian Revolution.
Een boek kopen
Heart of a Dog, Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov
- Taal
- Jaar van publicatie
- 1987
- product-detail.submit-box.info.binding
- (Paperback),
- Staat van het boek
- Goed
- Prijs
- € 5,49
Betaalmethoden
Nog niemand heeft beoordeeld.
- Titel
- Heart of a Dog
- Taal
- Engels
- Uitgever
- Grove Press
- Jaar van publicatie
- 1987
- Formaat
- Paperback
- Aantal pagina's
- 123
- ISBN10
- 0802150594
- ISBN13
- 9780802150592
- Reeks
- Tags
- Fictie, Humor, Science-fiction, Klassiekers, Korte Verhalen, 20e Eeuw, Rusland, Honden, Novelles, Russische literatuur, Satire, Magisch realisme
- Aantekening
- 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 <i>first</i> 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 <i>The Master and Margarita</i>, 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. <i>The Heart of a Dog</i> can be read as an absurd and wonderfully comic story; it can also be seen as a fierce parable of the Russian Revolution.