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4.16 AVERAGE


Horrible. No sé para qué me molesto en leer alta literatura si luego sufro tanto. En este caso puedo culpar a @los4navegantes, que hablaron del libro hace unos meses, y a mí mismo, por no abandonar el libro al principio, cuando vi que no iba por buen camino. Es un libro reescrito e inacabado y se nota en ciertas incongruencias hacia el final… o lo que a mí me parecen incoherencias y de las que avisan en el prólogo de esta edición. Pero bueno, aunque no existieran: es un libro prácticamente sin trama y con poco o ningún sentido. Una de esas obras de las que lo mejor que puedes decir: «lo bueno es el viaje, no el destino», pero que yo prefiero decir «para este viaje no hacían falta alforjas». Tiene algún que otro momento interesante, como el paseo nocturno de Margarita, pero son anecdóticas las partes molonas. Mi consejo: evitar a toda costa.

This book is read at two levels. The first is as a fantasical story of the devil coming to Moscow. The second is as a political statement criticizing the communist state in the same city. Without footnotes, I would have missed almost all of the second story. As a fairy tale, it is sufficiently weird to be enjoyable (think [a:Lewis Carroll|8164|Lewis Carroll|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1192735053p2/8164.jpg]). The second story would be immediately recognizable to someone who has lived under communism or another totalitarian state (as confirmed by talking to people who had, and who had read this book). A native American, however, would probably miss a lot of the subtle humor and jabs.

I highly recommend the 50th-anniversary Deluxe Edition by Penguin for American readers here: [b:The Master and Margarita|25716554|The Master and Margarita|Mikhail Bulgakov|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1439419734s/25716554.jpg|876183].

I cannot believe this book was written in the 20's and 30's. It is a little long (but that is par for the course for Russian literature), and could have probably been edited down a bit. But it

Again, a brilliant book that mixes supernatural and brutal critique of what Bulgakov lived in and through. Amazing book
adventurous funny mysterious slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: N/A
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

what an adventure.
it never fails to amaze me how beautifully written and creative is Russian’s literature, the vocabulary? At some point I thought I was dumb and understood nothing, but uk what? THATS THE BEAUTY OF IT ALL!

And omgg the imagination?? The story and the whole plot is mind boggling, I never got bored ONCE, i appreciated every page I read.

Without any surprises my fav characters were behemoth and woland.
I want to yap abt it but i don’t wanna spoil any of it bcz it deserves to be read and appreciated.


I'm going to have to go back to this one when I'm not stressed out trying to move and can actually focus on anything
challenging dark funny mysterious reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes

This book single-handedly shattered my prior misconceptions about classics. I never thought a day would come when I enjoyed a classic as much as I did this one. The balance of the slapstick narration of the tomfoolery the devil and minions conjure up and the cinematic narration of the Yershalaim subplot blew me away. It felt like getting a whiplash every time the main plot went into the subplot. Bulgakov's version of these godly entities felt very respectful to the source material but at the same time, he has twisted some stuff to move the story forward. My only gripe would be the prose in itself which took me a while to grasp but overall, it do be kinda peak ngl.
adventurous reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated