About this audiobook
In Moscow in 1924, Professor Philip Preobrazhensky takes a stray dog named Sharik into his home. With his assistant, Doctor Bormenthal, he carries out an experiment using human tissue. The result is a startling transformation: the dog becomes a man who takes the name Poligraf Poligrafovich Sharikov. Scientific ambition soon collides with the difficulties of sharing a household with the professor's new creation.
Sharikov's coarse behaviour and growing demands disrupt the apartment, while his association with Shvonder, the housing committee's chairman, gives their conflict a social and political dimension. Mikhail Bulgakov turns this fantastic premise into a satire of everyday life in the early Soviet period, where competing ideas of authority enter even the most private spaces.
The story raises questions about the responsibility of those who attempt to remake living beings and society. Its sharp humour and unsettling situations will appeal to readers interested in scientific ambition, power and the unpredictable consequences of trying to create a new kind of person.
