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The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov

Start date: August 1, 2018

Finish date: August 31, 2018

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Dec 11, 2021 Sara rated it really liked it

Shelves: farce, allegory, absurd, classics, russia

I don’t often find myself at a loss for words, but this book is quite impossible to describe or explain. It is more allegory than novel and it is peppered with heavily veiled commentary on Stalin’s Russia and the proletarian state. I read it with an analytical supplement and it was still something that needed to be taken slowly. I’m sure there are a wealth of themes important to Bulgakov that I have missed.

The first three quarters of the book seem a bit disjointed and confusing, plot being minim ...more

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Feb 19, 2020 Radwa rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, around-the-world, historical-fiction, fantasy, dark-and-gothic, e-books, adult, translations, magical-realism, 2020-favorites

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Around the World challenge: Russia

First line: "At the hour of the hot spring sunset, two citizens appeared at the Patriarch's Ponds."

Oh, how I wished I could've enjoyed this novel. The synopsis was calling to me, and the fact that one of its main characters is the devil? It was supposed to be a "Me" book. but it was either the translation or the fact I neglected writing down all these Russian names, I was lost by the end of th ...more

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Mar 02, 2016 Alexander rated it it was amazing

Shelves: literature

This book was awesome, had some sublime moments both in Moscow and Jerusalem. Pilate was one of my favourite characters of any book I've ever read. Cannot rate this highly enough. The prose were translated into English so there's not a lot that can be accurately said about the prose but it flowed well and wasn't clunky. ...more

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