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The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
Literature
James Mustich
Aug 23, 2018
One Soviet writer has no shortage of admirers today: Mikhail Bulgakov, whose novel The Master and Margarita has become both a Russian phenomenon and cult classic in the West. At once a love story, a supernatural adventure, and a vicious satire of the USSR under Stalin, it bursts with a creative energy that propels the narrative forward at lightning speed. Issued in the Soviet Union in the late 1960s, it immediately made its way to the West, where it quickly developed a following. In the decades since, as its black magic and biting humor attract new generations of readers, The Master and Margarita has become an ever more valuable document of the absurdities, dangers, and quandaries of life in the USSR and—all literature being more than local—beyond.
Witty, dazzling and all-around awe-inspiring, it pulls the reader back and forth in time and space in a whirl of unforgettable characters.
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Phantasmogoric story-telling, suspend your rationale instincts and ride along with the 'master'
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Read this book in two days... very entertaining and gripping!
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