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Old 03-14-2006, 13:17   #14
Martin
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Originally Posted by Danila
Anything you can read by Bulgakov is worth the time and effort, even in translation (though his prose in Russian is amazing). Many biased people like myself ( ) consider him the best novelist of the 20th century. His chef d'oeuvre was The Master and Margerita which is a surreal work including excerpts from the book the character "The Master" wrote about Pontius Pilate. Long and involved, but unparalleled.
I studied Russian with immigrants and The Master was one of the works they read! (on their classes I was more of an observer)

Maybe I should check it out later...

Martin
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