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4.16 AVERAGE
4.16 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A dreamlike caper of a visit by Satan and friends to Stalinist Moscow. Not being thoroughly familiar with the historical period, I know that there are references that I missed, and I suspect I’d enjoy a reread after learning more about the 1930s Soviet Union.
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
This requires undivided attention
funny
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
funny
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Suffice it to say that Bulgakov's version of Jesus is the one I learned before reading any of the gospels - an experience probably quite common for the literate Russians of my generation ( I was born in 1974). When young and impressionable, I had a crisis of academic faith on finding that the most worshipful Bakhtin thought very little of Bulgakov's Christ. The patrician Bakhtin, the aristocratic Bakhtin couldn't stomach the amazingly sarcastic Zoshchenko, either; but that was
a constitutional inability, perhaps, rather than error of judgment, on Bakhtin's part.
Today I would say, though, that, yes, the Jesus chapters to me, today, lack the live tremor of that other affair.
Look at Tynyanov's mauvism in this regard. The Master's novel was attacked by nefarious critics because of its subject matter or its sensibility (not its ideology, since ideology, in the main, means ideas we hate/despise/don't want to accept, in other words, a sensibility foreign to us); not because it was poorly written. Perhaps, Margarita loved Master not because he is a wonderful writer, but because, writing was for him a heavy cross to bear, something he couldn't avoid doing, and doing it in a certain way.
Master is the true risen Christ of that book. How did I not see that before?
a constitutional inability, perhaps, rather than error of judgment, on Bakhtin's part.
Today I would say, though, that, yes, the Jesus chapters to me, today, lack the live tremor of that other affair.
Look at Tynyanov's mauvism in this regard. The Master's novel was attacked by nefarious critics because of its subject matter or its sensibility (not its ideology, since ideology, in the main, means ideas we hate/despise/don't want to accept, in other words, a sensibility foreign to us); not because it was poorly written. Perhaps, Margarita loved Master not because he is a wonderful writer, but because, writing was for him a heavy cross to bear, something he couldn't avoid doing, and doing it in a certain way.
Master is the true risen Christ of that book. How did I not see that before?
dark
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
El maestro y Margarita de Mijaíl Bulgákov (Rusia) es uno de los libros más intensos que he leído. Desde el inicio te transporta de una escena a otra, introduciendo de manera burlesca a los personajes en la historia.
Conforme avanza, la trama se enreda y obliga al lector a recordar episodios anteriores para comprender la locura que se desarrolla: la presencia del diablo en el mundo, sus singulares acompañantes y un escritor que intenta convencer a la gente de que el diablo está suelto.
Más allá de la fantasía, el libro refleja un mundo dominado por el dinero, la burocracia y las apariencias, mostrando lo absurdo y corrupto de la vida cotidiana bajo ese sistema.
Es una obra compleja, llena de sátira, crítica social y realismo mágico, que reta al lector a sumergirse en su caos y genialidad.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Gore
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A