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Mikhail Bulgakov’s classic novel follows a successful Moscow professor who, after befriending a stray dog, performs an audacious experiment: he transplants a deceased man's testicles and pituitary gland into the animal. The dog’s gradual transformation into a distinctly human creature upends the professor’s orderly life and sets off a chain of absurd events. Through humor and irony, the story satirizes the intellectual climate of the Soviet Union and serves as a sharp parable of the Russian Revolution.
First publish date: January 21, 1994
Genre: Humorous Fiction/Comic Satire
Authors: Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков
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