![]() A more accurate, if unwieldy, title might have been The Master, the Master, the Master, the Master and Margarita because there are four main masters in this book, all with their own disciples. The Master and Margarita was not, however, its original title one of its working titles was Satan in Moscow but even that is not an especially helpful title although it does set the scene. There are many levels to this book and numerous interpretations. It's the kind of book you'd expect a writer to produce after working on it for eleven years. To that end at the end of this post there will be links to numerous lengthy articles (I've been reading them for the past two days solid) which underscore much of what I'm about to say. Oh, I can hurl superlatives at it but I won't have space to back them all up. But even that doesn't really cover it so there's no way in this review I can do this book justice. The Master and Margarita can be reasonably called the greatest novel to come out of Communist Russia, a work of magical realism, a pre-apocalyptic novel, a love story, a biting political satire or simply a damn good read if you can get over the fact that most of the names are thirty-odd characters long. This is a very long review so for those of you reading this in your lunch hour let me cut to the chase. ![]() ![]() When God created light, the first shadow was born – tagline to the film Shadow Builder ![]()
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