Il Maestro e Margherita

This review is dedicated to Mary, the very model of a perfect co-moderator and GR friend. Unlocking the Meaning of The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov In the decades following the publication of The Master and Margarita , myriad critics have attempted to find a key to unlock the meaning of Bulgako Leggi tutto

The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov The Master and Margarita is a novel by Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940 during Stalin's regime. The story concerns a visit by the devil to the officially atheistic Soviet Union. Many critics consider it to be Leggi tutto

I'm staying home from work today, sick to the extreme, and it's only in that unique feverish clarity that comes with illness that I dare to even try to write about this book. This is THE book. The one that all the other books are measured against. The one that I've read more times since I was twelve Leggi tutto

The Chicago Tribune wrote: “The book is by turns hilarious, mysterious, contemplative and poignant, and everywhere full of rich descriptive passages.” Hilarious and contemplative my ass, CT . This book is an interminable slog. Look, here’s the deal. I get that this book satirizes 1930s Stalinist Russia Leggi tutto

Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once. As lightning strikes, as a Finnish knife strikes! She, by the way, insisted afterwards that it wasn’t so, that we had, of course, loved each other for a long, long time, without knowing eac Leggi tutto

مزخرف یعنی این: از لحاظ تازگی درجه دو تازگی تنها یک درجه دارد؛ درجه اول و آخرش یکی است این کتاب نمایشی است از تقابل راستی و دروغ در جامعه روسیه استالین جامعه روسیه را دروغ و دزدی و تظاهر فرا گرفته و روشنفکران و منتقدان و نویسندگان هم به این کار دامن می زنند از آنان بیشتر از این انتظاری نمی توان داشت با Leggi tutto

Soviet Ghost Stories Stories, stories, all is stories: political stories, religious stories, scientific stories, even stories about stories. We live inside these stories. Like this one in The Master and Margarita . The story that we can more or less agree upon we call reality. But is it real? Story-mak Leggi tutto

«Sympathy for the Devil» His name is God. Not Lucifer,not Satan,but God!!! Satan is God in a bad mood. God in a bad mood lays our souls to waste. «As heads is tales Just call me LUCIFER cop is to criminal as God is to Lucifer». God in a good mood plays games with us. «What’s confusing you is just THE Leggi tutto

- أهلاً بكم الى ملحمة بولغاكوف، قمة عطائه الأدبي وأفضل اعماله، والمرحلة الأخيرة من نتاج عقله وقلبه متحدين.. الملحمة ذات الأبعاد الثلاثية (كما وجدتها)، والتي قدّم بولغاكوف فيها قراءة دينية جديدة، وسياسية واقعية، وغيبية مستقبلية رافعاً الأدب والأديب من مساره الإنساني البحت الى مراتب اخرى وفاتحاً لجدلٍ Leggi tutto

Manuscripts don’t burn… Mikhail Bulgakov, who is no stranger to the pale fire of a burning manuscript, has created a masterpiece of fiction that truly cannot be burned. Having been completed, but not fully edited, by the time of Bulgakov’s demise, this novel survived Soviet censorship and the test of Leggi tutto