Through his surreal, often grotesque humour, Bulgakov creates in
this book - a new translation of one of the most popular satires on
the Russian Revolution and on Soviet society - an ingenious new
twist to the 'Frankenstein' parable. Having been scalded by boiling
water earlier that day, and with little chance to survive the
severe winter night, a stray dog is left for dead on the streets.
Lamenting his fate, he is ill prepared for the chance arrival of a
wealthy professor who befriends him and takes him home. However, it
seems the professor's motives are not entirely altruistic - an
expert in medical experimentation, he sees his new charge as the
potential subject for a bizarre operation, and implants glands from
a dead criminal in the dog. The resulting half-man, half-beast is,
as to be expected, a monstrosity, yet one that fits in remarkably
well with Soviet society...
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