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

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 Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov In this work, reality and fantasy, "Real" and "Surreal" are intertwined, it can be said that it is a kind of "Russian magical realism". The novel has philosophical and social themes, with a political background, which is subtly and indirectly reminiscent of Leggi tutto

‘ All power is violence over people. ’ 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 an 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

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

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

«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

چگونه می‌توان عاشق ولند نبود؟ چگونه می‌توان آرزویش را نکرد؟ شیطانی که با دستیارهایش جهان را از پاشنه در می‌کند تا حق گردن کلفت‌ها را بگذارد کف دست‌شان، گردن بزرگ‌ترین‌هاشان را به یک اشاره خرد کند، با شعبده‌هایش به ریش‌شان بخندد و این چهره‌های متشخص و جا افتاده را روانۀ تیمارستان کند، و از طرف دیگر، Leggi tutto