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This book was so much more interesting after I figured out that it was a story within a story and that much of it was allegorical. Also, if I could have kept up with the notes, it would have made more sense sooner. Russian names are unfamiliar to me and with so many characters and with the characters going by different names, I was confused for most of the book. Maybe, someday, I'll read this again and appreciate it more.
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Bulgakov writes this novel during the time of Stalin. It is highly symbolic and sometimes amusing. I needed assistance from online commentaries to understand it. The novel criticizes multiple aspects of Soviet life at the time. Many people disappear, citizens inform on one another, the literary industry is corrupt, etc. This book was published 26 years after the authors death. I have no doubt that if it had been published in his lifetime he would have been among the multitudes who "disappeared".
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May 11, 2018
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Dec 20, 2018
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