![]() ![]() Thrilled, the mangy Sharik follows the gentleman through Moscow back to his huge, elegantly-decorated department. Philip Philippovich Preobrazhensky) marches over and feeds Sharik a horsemeat sausage. ![]() She pets him and nicknames him “Sharik” (which means “Little Ball”). He watches a young typist ( Vasnetsova) run out of the cafeteria into the snowstorm and pities her. The dog curses the cook, a dishonest scoundrel who serves rotten meat. The cook in a Soviet government cafeteria threw a pot of boiling water at him, scalding his side. The novel opens with the perspective of a wounded dog, who howls as he freezes to death in the harsh Moscow winter. Just as the professor’s unruly experiment upends his life, Bulgakov suggests, the Bolsheviks destroyed Russian society through their unruly communist experiment in social equality. In Heart of a Dog, Mikhail Bulgakov uses this fictional experiment as a metaphor for what he sees as the failures of the Russian Revolution and communist Bolshevik government. Preobrazhensky) implants a human pituitary gland into a stray dog ( Sharik) and accidentally turns him into a man. In the early days of the Soviet Union, a mad scientist ( Prof. ![]()
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