The Heart of a Dog (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Mikhail Bulgakov
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Work: Novella
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: The early 1920’s
- Setting: Moscow
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Satire, Allegory
- Subjects: Dogs, Communism or communists, 1920’s, Surgery or surgeons, Russia or Russian people, Moscow, Soviet Union or Soviets, Metamorphosis or transmogrification, Experiments, Mad scientists, Organ donation
- Locales: Moscow, Russia
Characters Discussed
Professor Philip Philippovich Preobrazhensky (fih-LIH-poh-vihch preh-oh- brah-ZHEHN-skee), a sixty-year-old doctor with a pointed goatee and fluffy gray mustache. He examines his privileged patients and conducts research in rejuvenation in his luxurious Moscow residence. A connoisseur with a love for opera, cigars, and other luxuries, he disdains the recently empowered proletariat and repeatedly exerts his influence to protect his apartment from the Kalabukhov house management committee, which wishes him to give up two of his seven rooms. As part of his...
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Mikhail Bulgakov (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Mikhail Bulgakov (Long Fiction)Mikhail Bulgakov (Drama)Mikhail Bulgakov (Censorship)
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