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“Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name…”

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

September 22, 2024 by Malin 1 Comment

3.5 stars Nowhere Books Bingo: Banned books (Wasn’t published until 27 years after Bulgakov’s death, and only then in a censored version. ) CBR16 Bingo: Cult (cult classic, and there’s the whole Devil and his entourage as a central plot point – that’s pretty cultish, right?) I can’t remember exactly how long The Master and Margarita has been on my TBR list, but it’s certainly more than twenty years. A quick glance on Goodreads shows me that 15 of my friends have rated it four […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, 20th Century, Allegorical, banned books, CBR16, cbr16bingo, Communism, cult, cult classic, historical fiction, horror, literary classic, Malin, Mikhail Bulgakov, Nowhere Book Bingo, political satire, The Master and Margarita, the soviet union

Malin's CBR16 Review No:57 · Genres: Featured, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, 20th Century, Allegorical, banned books, CBR16, cbr16bingo, Communism, cult, cult classic, historical fiction, horror, literary classic, Malin, Mikhail Bulgakov, Nowhere Book Bingo, political satire, The Master and Margarita, the soviet union ·
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It Is a Puzzlement

Our Philosopher by Gert Hofmann

May 8, 2024 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

This was a slim and melancholy read, and I feel as if I am missing quite a bit of context.  The author is German, and although it was written in 1993, is set in the mid-1930s, and so mid-wars Germany.  There is nothing overtly political about the plot, but it is impossible to ignore what is looming ahead for Germany as well as the rest of the world. The setting is a quiet country town in the eastern German countryside, and the titular character is […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: 1930's Germany, Allegorical, Child's viewpoint, Gert Hofmann, Sad

elderberrywine's CBR16 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: 1930's Germany, Allegorical, Child's viewpoint, Gert Hofmann, Sad ·
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