Heart of a Dog
Thursday, 22 March 2007 @ 18:04
by Mikhail Bulgakov (1925)
A renowned Moscow scientist (surgeon), Philip Philippovich Preobrazhensky, with his assistant Ivan Arnoldovich Bromenthal, implanted the pituitary’s gland and the testes of a recently dead criminal into a stray dog, Sharik, with the unexpected result of Sharik turning into a complete human, a caricature stereotype of a boorish and stupid proletarian spouting revolutionary slogans (Engels & Kautsky) he doesn’t understand.
