| It’s been a while since we’ve had a book recommendation here— I’ve missed having my perspective broadened. |
[Amazon] Read this book. Listen to the music. The parent site won't allow copy and paste so just hit the link.
Lots of reasons to like Bulgakov's work, but the thing that really makes this book a big deal to me is Jesus forgiving Pilate at the end. Because that's the ultimate in forgiveness. Also, I'm not usually tolerant of magick in fiction, but Bulgakov pulls it off. Additionally, I have shared household with a number of black cats, so there's a connection there. Subversive literature from the USSR is an interesting area that I have only touched lightly, but hope to look into more when I'm not reading old cop books like John D. MacDonald and Ed McBain.
The Music.
| Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) was one of the so called Fellow Travelers, apolitical Russian writers and artists who stayed on after the Revolution. Most were driven out of Soviet literature by the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers under Leopold Averbakh in the 1920s. The link is to the Amazon free sample of the first several chapters of the English translation of The Master and Margarita. |
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