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Oh my, what a delightful, insanely detailed, carnivalish nightmare of a novel. Bulgakov just sort of sucks up everything he can from Biblical lore, Russian paganism, Satanism, Gogol-esque humor and basically crafts this crazed, freewheeling portrait of life in early Stalinist Moscow while at the same time creating an almost unbelievably detailed re-working of Biblical Jerusalem in the days around Jesus' Crucifixion (seriously, only Umberto Ecco is this good at at drowning you in the details of b
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I couldn’t bear listening to this work of Magic Realism before the term was invented. I couldn’t care for any of the characters and found it deadly dull.
Many give it five stars. De gustibus...
Many give it five stars. De gustibus...
(wonderfully narrated by Julian Rhind-Tutt)
So this is my favorite book and I've read it twice but now that I'm listening to it, I find I've forgotten so much of it. What a pleasure to re-encounter it. Maybe a sloppy memory is a good thing in this case.
You've got to admit that even among intellectuals you can find a few folk of rare intelligence.
"What have you done?" exclaimed Woland. "Why have you gilded your whiskers? And what on earth do you want with a whit tie when you haven't even got any t ...more
So this is my favorite book and I've read it twice but now that I'm listening to it, I find I've forgotten so much of it. What a pleasure to re-encounter it. Maybe a sloppy memory is a good thing in this case.
You've got to admit that even among intellectuals you can find a few folk of rare intelligence.
"What have you done?" exclaimed Woland. "Why have you gilded your whiskers? And what on earth do you want with a whit tie when you haven't even got any t ...more
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