Short (90pp?) fantasy about a dog who becomes a man for a while in postrevolution Moscow. Kind of a strange version of Flowers for Algernon... very well done.

Considered by many a masterpiece, this is a darkly humorous and very unusual book. Satan shows up in postrevolution Moscow, and some very weird things happen. Flashbacks to Pilate & Jesus are tossed in and the whole thing is quite unlike anything else I've ever read. There's an essay on the web by Dave Parrish.

Get the translation by Mirra Ginsburg.