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Ramon edited the links to supplemental material of The Master and Margarita 3 weeks ago.
- Added a link: Book and Film Review (http://nighthawknews.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/top-100-novels-84-the-master-and-margarita/) : This was the first book that I ever read on Veronica’s suggestion. I knew absolutely nothing about it, with all of my knowledge on Russian literature pretty much confined at that point to the 19th century authors. But I was swept up and overwhelmed by this amazing novel, this fantastical journey through the depths of hell, with Moscow playing the part of hell, complete with the presence of Satan and even Pontius Pilate. And that was reading the old Mirra Ginsburg translation, which had been based on the censored version first printed in Moscow magazine. It would be a few more years before I would read the more complete translation by Diana Burgin and Katherine Tiernan O’Connor. That this novel ever made it to the U.S. at all is almost a miracle. Bulgakov worked on the novel for 12 years, completing a fourth draft just before he died of nephrosclerosis. It was read underground for decades before his widow finally got it published in Moscow in 1966. But that version had been censored by the Soviet authorities, and while it was quickly translated and moved Bulgakov into the circle of Soviet literary giants, it would be a while yet before we would see a more complete version, the Burgin / O’Connor translation from 1995 which is where all my quotes come from.
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Ramon submitted a request to combine 6 books 3 weeks ago.
- The Master and Margarita by Mikhaíl Bulgakov
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Shelfari edited the contributors of The Master and Margarita Sunday, March 31, 2013.
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starwolvie approved Backroads’s request to combine 9 books, including The Master and Margarita, Saturday, March 16, 2013.
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Backroads submitted a request to combine 9 books, including The Master and Margarita, Saturday, March 2, 2013.
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Charisma edited the books cited by this book of The Master and Margarita Saturday, February 2, 2013.
- reordered the books cited by this book.
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Charisma edited the books cited by this book of The Master and Margarita Saturday, February 2, 2013.
- Added Eugene Onegin
- Added Woe from Wit
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starwolvie approved Louisa van der Luyden’s request to combine 9 books, including The Master and Margarita, Wednesday, January 16, 2013.
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Louisa van der Luyden submitted a request to combine 9 books, including The Master and Margarita, Sunday, January 6, 2013.
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Anna edited the series & lists of The Master and Margarita Thursday, January 3, 2013.
- Added this book in the series: The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge (community list)
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