Not surprisingly the events of the story occur in Moscow in December 1924 and have as leading characters doctor Preobrazhenskii, his assistant Bormental and Sharik, a dog who they have subjected to a hypophysis transplant that causes him to metamorphosize into Poligraf Poligrafovich Sharikov, a humanoid who embodies the distortions of the new Soviet regime.
Mikhail Bulgakov wrote Sobach’e serdtse (The Heart of a Dog) between January and March 1925, after he publicly spoke against censorship and Soviet bureaucracy in the first NEP phase. Year of the first publication in Russian: 1968
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