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Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков: The Master and Margarita (Paperback, 1996, Vintage International) 4 stars

The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece.

An audacious revision of …

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5 stars

The devil comes to Moscow to cause mischief and I'm still not sure what happened.

The wildly surrealist imagery took some warming up to, then I realised I just had to stop thinking and let whatever-the-hell was going on to happen. After that, it became about enjoying the visuals, the silliness of the different characters, the fun use of language.

I'm looking forward to reading this book again sometime.

Favourite section has to be the entire chapter (don't know if spoilers are needed for a book this crazy but) with Margerita as a naked witch on a broomstick. I'm sure there were many layers of meaning to it, maybe allusions to iconic works of the past, but for me it was just a great time.