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    <body><![CDATA[I read this with an uncomfortable sense of deja vu.<br/><br/>I've heard this book described as a 'savage satire' of Moscow's cultural elite. The satire is certainly present but overall ADMM seems more like a tragedy to me.<br/><br/>Bulgakov writes that &quot;there is nothing worse...than cowardi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80013483">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay!  This is strange.  The book I read is entitled &quot;A Dead Man's Memoir (A Theatrical Novel) and was published by Penguin in 2007 (ISBN 978-0-140=45514-0).  There are references in the novel to &quot;Black Snow,&quot; although it is too complicated here to explain the nature of those referenc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34094846">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Black Snow is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov. This apparent platitude is full of contradiction. The book is perhaps better described as an autobiographical episode, with Bulgakov renamed as the book’s central character, Maxudov. It’s also a satire in which the characters are precise, exact and ofte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33246851">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bulgakov is one of my favorite novelist, and is my favorite 20th century Russian novelist.  I loved the Master and Margarita and Heart of a Dog.  I adored this book too.  It is very well written, very easy to get into, but I found myself trying to push myself to get through this at times.  This is t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17807270">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd have had a different appreciation of Black Snow if I'd read an article that I skipped over at the front of the book entitled &quot;About Mikhail Bulgakov, his Novel, The Moscow Art Theatre, Stanislavsky&quot;.  Without that knowledge, I assumed I was working my way through a novel about a playwr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35333844">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[mike never finished writing this one, but if you like the theatre, and don't mind a good poke at stano and his acting techniques, then this is a good (half-written) read friends. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am currently involved in a production of the play based on this book, and I think the play is much more interesting despite the many things it takes from the book without fully forming them.  It's a quick read, in places it's funny, but apart from that it was just ok, not something I craved readin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56749821">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is an unfinished novel. There is something about unfinished works that make them so poignant: Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, his unfinished Piano Sonata in C, Bach's unfinished Art of the Fugue.<br/><br/>But Black Snow stands out not because of this romanticism. It is written with wit, infused...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8735579">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book is impresive because it presents the dramatic position in which a play writer is caught. He wants to commit suicide but founds out that a theatre is ready to present his play. An unfortunate piece of news because Maxudux will find himself into a carouselle driven by political or personal de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35391241">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[No need to read this book unless you're a Bulgakov-biographer-wanna-be.  <br/><br/>I mean, as with most of his works, it is a lightly disguised biography, but more lightly than normal.  It's quasi-unfinished, and doesn't cover any territory a semi-well-read Bulgakov-phile hasn't read already.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20057441">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like everything Bulgakov ever wrote, this is a charming and incisive book. I adore the narrator's self-hating persona, as well as his persistent admiration of buffoons. A shame the author died before its completion.]]></body>
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