Michail Bulgakow, Das Hundeherz. Vollständig neu übersetzt von Alexandra Berlina

Bello is a rather well-mannered street dog until the brilliant surgeon Professor Filipp Preobraschenski comes up with the idea of implanting a human pituitary gland into the animal. His intention is merely to rejuvenate the dog – but the attempt spectacularly backfires: Bello transforms into Comrade Bellski, who curses, drinks, and steals. With this grotesque fable, created in 1925 in Moscow, Mikhail Bulgakov satirically critiques the utopian and audacious idea of the proletarian Soviet man, crafting perhaps the funniest science fiction dystopia in world literature, a must-read for all fans of "The Master and Margarita." Even after 95 years, it remains a magnificent fable, somewhere between "Frankenstein" and Faust's homunculus. Brilliant, hilarious, and razor-sharp: a Russian classic that is worth reading again and again.