Abstract

This essay aims to show how Mikhail Bulgakov’s novella Heart of a Dog (Sobach’e serdtse, 1925) challenges the markedly anthropocentric view of narrative time and narrative agency that characterized early Soviet aesthetics. By offering a reading of the text that takes into account the history of early twentieth-century endocrinology, theories of narrative, and the post-human approach, the analysis will reveal how an endocrine gland, the hypophysis (also known as the pituitary) and its functions complicate established notions of those two narratological categories.

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