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I'll start by saying this: Pontius Pilate is completely gay for Yeshua like holy shit. This book was really good but man I wish it was like, half as long? There was sooooooooooooooo much filler and the good parts were really good but the boring parts made it really hard to keep reading and I will probably never read it again because of that. There are so many characters and most of them don't matter at all and I could not follow all of the names because not only are there way too many characters but in true Russian fashion they (mostly) all have AT LEAST three to five names. Anyways, I'm sure a ton of the references and ideas here went wayy over my head but I kind of embarassingly cried a little bit at the end. Not as much as when I read Sofia Petrovna but I still didn't think I would at all this time... Uhm anyways it was a good book I think. I think I'll probably be going back and forth on my rating for a while because... like I said the good parts were really good but like half of it was just... I did not want to read it at all for a while. Margarita and Homeless were my favorite characters by far, what a delight! I can see why this book is so popular. There is a LOT going on here. A story about Russia in the 1950’s and a visit from Satan and some cohorts, including Behemoth, a very large and typical cat. I don’t know enough about Russia of the time to get all of the satire, though some is quite obvious. Read simply as a love story and for the touching novel within the novel about Christ and Pilate, it is fully satisfying. Despite the promising chapter titles, the first one hundred pages of this book was of so little interest that I gave up on it. Clearly I'm out of step with the vast majority of readers. There was no one I cared about and whatever literary and ethical subtext may have been present for others, was so obscure and illusive to me, that all that I could find was a tedious procession of hyperbolic outrages.
Hostigado y perseguido, como tantos otros creadores e intelectuales rusos, por sus críticas al sistema soviético, MIJAIL BULGÁKOV (1891-1940) no pudo llegar a ver publicada "El maestro y margarita", que, escrita entre 1929 y su fallecimiento, sólo pudo ver la luz en 1966. Novela de culto, la obra trasciende la mera sátira, si bien genial, de la sociedad soviética de entonces -con su población hambrienta, sus burócratas estúpidos, sus aterrados funcionarios y sus corruptos artistas, cuya sórdida existencia viene a interrumpir la llegada a Moscú del diablo, acompañado de una extravagante corte-, para erigirse en metáfora de la complejidad de la naturaleza humana, así como del eterno combate entre el bien y el mal. Belongs to Publisher SeriesAlianza Tres (60) En bok för alla (2006) dtv (10168/11668) dtv phantastica (1872) — 23 more Gallimard, Folio (6584) Grote ABC (110) Harvill (11) ET Tascabili [Einaudi] (393) A tot vent (744) Venècies (3) ΒΙΠΕΡ : Best Seller (167) Βιβλιοθήκη· Ανάγνωση (19) Is contained inContainsHas the adaptationInspiredHas as a reference guide/companionHas as a commentary on the textHas as a student's study guideAwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
A "soaring, dazzling novel" (The New York Times), Mirra Ginsburg's critically-acclaimed translation of one of the most important and best-loved modern classics in world literature The Master and Margarita has been captivating readers around the world ever since its first publication in 1967. Written during Stalin's time in power but suppressed in the Soviet Union for decades, Bulgakov's masterpiece is an ironic parable on power and its corruption, on good and evil, and on human frailty and the strength of love.In The Master and Margarita, the Devil himself pays a visit to Soviet Moscow. Accompanied by a retinue that includes the fast-talking, vodka-drinking, giant tomcat Behemoth, he sets about creating a whirlwind of chaos that soon involves the beautiful Margarita and her beloved, a distraught writer known only as the Master, and even Jesus Christ and Pontius Pilate. The Master and Margarita combines fable, fantasy, political satire, and slapstick comedy to create a wildly entertaining and unforgettable tale that is commonly considered the greatest novel to come out of the Soviet Union. It appears in this edition in a translation by Mirra Ginsburg that was judged "brilliant" by Publishers Weekly. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)891.7342Literature Literature of other languages Literature of east Indo-European and Celtic languages Russian and East Slavic languages Russian fiction USSR 1917–1991 Early 20th century 1917–1945LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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