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Surely no stranger work exists in the annals of protest literature than The Master and Margarita. Written during the Soviet crackdown of the 1930s, when Mikhail Bulgakov's works were effectively banned, it wraps its anti-Stalinist message in a complex allegory of good and evil. Or would that be the other way around? The book's chief character is Satan, who appears in the guise of a foreigner and self-proclaimed black magician named Woland. Accompanied by a talking black tomcat and a "translator" wearing a jockey's cap and cracked pince-nez, Woland wreaks havoc throughout literary Moscow. First he predicts that the head of noted editor Berlioz will be cut off; when it is, he appropriates Berlioz's apartment. (A puzzled relative receives the following telegram: "Have just been run over by streetcar at Patriarch's Ponds funeral Friday three afternoon come Berlioz.") Woland and his minions transport one bureaucrat to Yalta, make another one disappear entirely except for his suit, and frighten several others so badly that they end up in a psychiatric hospital. In fact, it seems half of Moscow shows up in the bin, demanding to be placed in a locked cell for protection.
Meanwhile, a few doors down in the hospital lives the true object of Woland's visit: the author of an unpublished novel about Pontius Pilate. This Master--as he calls himself--has been driven mad by rejection, broken not only by editors' harsh criticism of his novel but, Bulgakov suggests, by political persecution as well. Yet Pilate's story becomes a kind of parallel narrative, appearing in different forms throughout Bulgakov's novel: as a manuscript read by the Master's indefatigable love, Margarita, as a scene dreamed by the poet--and fellow lunatic--Ivan Homeless, and even as a story told by Woland himself. Since we see this narrative from so many different points of view, who is truly its author? Given that the Master's novel and this one end the same way, are they in fact the same book? These are only a few of the many questions Bulgakov provokes, in a novel that reads like a set of infinitely nested Russian dolls: inside one narrative there is another, and then another, and yet another. His devil is not only entertaining, he is necessary: "What would your good be doing if there were no evil, and what would the earth look like if shadows disappeared from it?"
Unsurprisingly--in view of its frequent, scarcely disguised references to interrogation and terror--Bulgakov's masterwork was not published until 1967, almost three decades after his death. Yet one wonders if the world was really ready for this book in the late 1930s, if, indeed, we are ready for it now. Shocking, touching, and scathingly funny, it is a novel like no other. Woland may reattach heads or produce 10-ruble notes from the air, but Bulgakov proves the true magician here. The Master and Margarita is a different book each time it is opened. --Mary Park
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Terrific.......2007-09-18
Fantastic, wickedly funny satire of Russian life in the Soviet Union. I picked this up on impulse and really, really enjoyed it. It's challenging and entertaining and very rewarding. A great read.
M&Ms Soviet Style.......2007-09-13
I bought this book here after getting two independent recommendations and seeing it mentioned in another book about Russia. As mentioned by others, the satirical humor about fatalism and the all out battle for class being fought on a square foot by square foot basis in the "classless" society of the Soviet is priceless, even to someone who has no first hand knowledge of the society. The foibles of bureaucracy is a universal theme.
The second half of book was a wild ride for sure. The Devil and his retinue's exploits in Moscow finally involve "The Master", a failed author whose life's work is a non-religious account of Pontius Pilate and the last days of Yeshua (Jesus). Margarita is The Master's mistress, who sells her soul to the devil for her beloved. Bulgakov explores the nature of good and evil, of religion and history, and of freedom and totalitarianism, all in a world where the illusion of reality can be fractured in an instant. A good background in literature and religious history will help the reader, but the story can also be appreciated for its humorous and satirical aspects. Not for everyone, but certainly of interest to avid readers of all ilks.
A very dated but interesting piece of satirical fiction.......2007-08-23
For someone living under the grip of the Stalinist regime, the account in this novel must have been cathartic. I find it all a bit exaggerated and silly. It was recommended by a friend as the best novel ever written. That's going a bit far, but it is well done and amusing.
A Russian speaking reader.......2007-08-23
The translation is lousy. The one made by Michael Glenny is far better, though his is sometimes very free - for example he may write "heart attack" instead of lungs sarcoma, and he calls Solovki an asylum while it's a prison, he also may omit passages (not very important ones, though) but his translation beautifully conveys Bulgakov's humour and that's the most important part. The translation we are discussing here does not do this and the book sounds dead.
piltosis.......2007-07-12
one of themost bizarre readings i've ever had. but delightful -like satanic fairytale and the end scenes between the master magarita and jesus and pilate were just as moving as hell.
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The Master and Margarita
Manufacturer: Fontana
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The complete, unexpurgated edition, banned in Russia.
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Useful guide to difficult references.......1999-10-26
I'm not a big reader of literary criticism, but this book really helped me. I loved Master & Margarita the first time I read it, but there are several references that just escaped me. This book, coupled with the new Vintage/Ardis edition which has copious endnotes, helps clarify things that would normally escape a non-Russia unfamiliar with life in 1930's Russia.
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El Maestro Y Margarita/ The Master and Margarita (13/20)
Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov
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The Author as Hero: Self and Tradition in Bulgakov, Pasternak, and Nabokov (SRLT)
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Justin Weir looks at the complex relationship between authorial self-reflection and the recreation of literary tradition in three of the most famous Russian novels of the first half of the 20th century - Bulgakov's Master and Margarita, Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago, and Nabokov's The Gift. Character is defined as the act of writing itself, transforming the traditional author into the hero of the story, and allowing for the revelation of the identity of the artist through his writing.
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Between Two Worlds: A Critical Introduction to The Master and Margarita
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Mikhail Bulgakov's masterpiece, The Master and Margarita, is by general consent one of the most important, controversial, and original novels to have emerged from the Soviet Union. The first comprehensive study of this novel in English, Between Two Worlds describes its genesis and reception
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highly enlightening.......2006-01-26
After i read Master, I checked this out from the library at my college. Reading it was almost as fun as reading the book of the subject. Absolutely replete with valuable insights. Also, it never tells you what to think but just highlights the many complex questions and enigmas in this complex book.
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Bulgakov's Apocalyptic Critique of Literature: An Eventful History
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Anne Rice casts her lurid gaze upon the the traditional tale of "Sleeping Beauty" under the pen name of A.N. Roquelaure. Her re-telling of the Beauty story probes the unspoken implications of this lush, suggestive tale by exploring its undeniable connection to sexual desire. Reminiscent of the charged erotica of her novel Belinda.
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Celebrate the daring gifts of Anne Rice, writing as A. N. Roquelaure, with this beautifully repackaged boxed set of the three erotic novels in her acclaimed Sleeping Beauty trilogy.
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Genius.......2007-10-10
Anne Rice is a pure Genius. The Sleeping Beauty novels were elegantly written with such dramatic detail to the characters, their thoughts and their feelings. She explores the fantasy and eroticism of Domination and Submission with such grace.
Peronally I dont usually care for writing of this nature but I felt like I was in the story. I became Beauty and had her thoughs, felt her feelings.
Sleeping Beauty.......2007-09-26
I love these books
reading this trilogy kept me on edge the entire time.
Anne Rice is a great author. I Would buy more books by her
Most boring book ever.......2007-09-15
When a book has as its main appeal to be innovative and shocking, the worst possible disaster is to be boring.
And boring this series is. It is an endless sucession of beatings and spankings in the rear. Sleeping Beauty goes as a slave to the castle of the prince who rescued her, only to be joined by several princes and princesses who are also slaves there.
The characters have no psychological life, the dialogues are childish and there is no plot or action, besides the monotonous spanking of buttocks. If eroticism was this, soon there would be no sex in this planet.
The only emotion this book offered me is the willingness to spank Ms. Rice hard for writing such trash.
Erotic Lovers Book!.......2007-09-13
Written by Anne Rice, this is a compendum of BDSM for those who enjoy reading something different and challenging!
The Sleeping Beauty Novels.......2007-09-13
Anne Rice has taken a very different path with this classic tale and provides another story that makes you wonder if there is a Happily Ever After. A very exotic, erotic read!
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Great start, lacking somewhat..........2007-05-18
I thought it was beautifully written with many vivid details, mainly. you felt emotions from the characters and felt drawn into the story. That was the greatest part.... when Anne was raped you felt her horror, the shock and the betrayal.. It actually made me tear up.
Now the bad.... I felt it dragged on and on in the middle, at times it was pointless and pretty dull. The ending was ok, not wonderful but soso, in all honesty this over-long book could've been much better if they removed 200pages... so I gave this book 3 stars. Not bad, not great, but readable.
Sleeping Beauty: A Novel.......2005-07-03
Great read. Convincing characters, plausible plot, interesting setting, story moves right along. I had trouble putting it down.
Frighteningly realistic.......2000-04-03
A survivor of child sexual abuse, Anne Garnett leaves home far behind at a young age and becomes a high-powered, beautiful -- yet romantically untouchable lawyer. Until love enters the ice princess's life, and her beloved grandfather dies. She finds she must go home and face faces of relatives she'd rather forget in her painful memories of incest. Anne's character is so real, as are the characters readers meet from her past and in the present. This is an example of a romance novel that dips into one of life's true horrors -- incest -- and doesn't romanticize it or try to make it any less pretty than it is.
Characters draw you in and hold you........1999-06-03
Sleeping Beauty will be an alarming tale for those who have experienced the injustices faced by Anne and for those who fight to protect children. After forcing myself to go on, I was drawn into the story. Anger, sadness and excitment were only a few of the emotion I felt. I could not put it down. I feel relieved when the victim conquers his or her fears and Anne was allowed to do that?
However, I was disappointed that "good ole Uncle Vince" received to what amount to a on slap on the hand for his transgressions and slimmy Keith no doubt continues his escapades in Washington. Does Vince really have the guts to "get rid of him"? What happened to Dora? Wouldn't she be outraged about Josh & Anne, and go after Anne with a vengence? Shoudln't Rita apologize? I think this book calls for a sequel. It would be worth purchasing.
A Brave Herione.......1999-05-07
This is truly my favorite novel. Much of my admiration for this novel is centered around the herione of the novel, Anne. A lonely motherless child that was sexually abused by her uncle becomes a smart but empty woman. We might not agree with all the choices she has made but we can't blame her either considering all that has happened to her. We eagerly await how her family will react to having her appear after 25 she ran away from home. And we are disappointed that they still deny her accusation. A truly inspiring novel for those who have been beaten yet survives nonetheless. I highly recommend this book.
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groundbreaking work.......2006-07-10
This text is a wonderful read for anyone invested in the intellectual pursuit of scholarship and feminism. Obviously, this type of important work is upsetting to readers who do not like their patriarchal notions of "feminism" and the constructed body of the young and adult woman in today's culture questioned or problematized.
THIS is feminism???.......2004-03-13
Look, I'm a man, so I might have a skewed view of what "feminism" is and is not. But Ms. Trites's view of what constitutes "true feminist literature" with its emhasis on communication, sharing and self-improvement over effective female heroes sounds, to this White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Male at least, a LOT like the "finer qualities of women" extolled by Victorian lady novelists. It has little, if any, bearing on the passionately activist and physically and morally courageous teenage girls and twentysomething women of my experience - or of the older women (one of whom I'm married to) who fought long and hard so someone like Ms. Trites could call herself a "feminist".
Ms. Trites slams work featuring teenage girls taking effective action as "boys in drag", implying that a girl or a woman who actually defends herself, or fight for what she believes in, is somehow a gender traitor, while praising to the skies the kind of ovary-brooding tripe that encourages teenage girls to turn inward - and effectively, leave the driving to us men. I'm sure that her version of "feminism" goes over very well with the Religious Right and the Taliban - "Yes, you concentrate on making yourself a better person and communicating while we take away your civil liberties - oh, and put on this *chadoor* while you're at it!" I can't believe that I'm the only person who finds Ms. Trites's view of "feminist literature" smug, morally repugnant - and actively dangerous to young women.
This book is SO not recommended - and if this is what Feminist Studies Departments are teaching these days, no wonder there's been a backlash against feminism.
A Must Read.......2000-06-14
Trites' book is a must read for college students, teachers, parents, everyone... Her language is very accessible. I used this book as the main source for my senior thesis, and found it to be extremely helpful as well as enlightening.
Trites writes eloquently for her intended audience.......1999-09-27
The previous reviewer criticizes the book for not being accessible to youthful audiences. It's quite clear that Trites is writing for a professional, adult audience. In doing so, she provides a thoughtful, intelligent, convincing analysis of feminist children's literature. Potential readers should not be mislead by the previous comments as the reviewer has misunderstood the intended audience for the book. The book is essential reading for any adult interested in feminist children's literature.
Trites does not consider cognitive abilities of adolescents.......1999-07-30
Teaching children to read beyond the words is an important pedagogy, but one must consider the level of cognition of the audience. Trites uses young adult and childrens' literature to highlight her points. But her analagies and metaphors are leaps and bounds beyond the realm of understanding of youth. In fact, many of her examples are difficult for graduate students to comprehend. Only a few analogies are comprehensible to a youthful audience. She is a genius at literary analysis, but she needs to consider an age appropriate curriculum. I will not refer to this text in the future, nor will I recommend it to others.
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The Ballad Of Sleeping Beauty
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Hounded gunfighter Cole Jarrett chases the tale of a woman cursed to spend the rest of her days imprisoned in sleep for sins she did not commit while running from a guilt-riddled past. In this adventure, the classic fairy tale is just the beginning. Included is the entire 8-issue series, a cover gallery by Jeff Amano and an afterword from the author, Gabriel Benson (Fade From Grace).
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Sleeping Beauty, Lew Archer finds himself the confidant of a
wealthy, violent family with a load of trouble on their hands--including an oil spill, a missing girl, a lethal dose of Nembutal, a six-figure ransom, and a stranger afloat, face down, off a private beach. Here is Ross Macdonald's masterful tale of buried memories, the consequences of arrogance, and the anguished relations between parents and their children. Riveting, gritty, tautly written,
Sleeping Beauty is crime fiction at its best.
If any writer can be said to have inherited the mantle of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, it is Ross Macdonald. Between the late 1940s and his death in 1983, he gave the American crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity that his pre-decessors had only hinted at. And in the character of Lew Archer, Macdonald redefined the private eye as a roving conscience who walks the treacherous frontier between criminal guilt and human sin.
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Oil Spill Parallels the Collapse of the Imposing Lennox Family.......2007-05-28
Having just read Sleeping Beauty once again, I find myself perilously close to starting a cycle of rereading all eighteen Lew Archer mysteries. Sleeping Beauty is among the last of the Archer novels, and yet it would serve quite well as starting point for a reader new to Ross MacDonald's private detective.
As Lew Archer's flight returns to Los Angeles from Mexico, he looks down upon a large oil spill extending for miles off Pacific Point. That evening along the coast he encounters a young, angry woman attempting to rescue oil-drenched sea birds. Before the night is out, Archer has been employed to rescue the woman herself, thought to have been kidnapped. Her grandfather is the patriarch of the imposing Lennox family, and chairman of the company that is responsible for the spreading oil slick.
Lew Archer is essential to MacDonald's mysteries, but not as an action figure. Archer's task is to unravel the psychological complexities that define his clients, the suspects, and the victims. Often the solution to a crime lays in the distant past; later generations sometimes pay severe penalties for old sins.
The Lennox family skeletons are many. The plot is complicated and twists unexpectedly as Archer uncovers buried family memories and hidden infidelities, some stretching back to World War II. Tautly told in the manner of a Chandler mystery, Sleeping Beauty is superb detective fiction.
Lew Archer is often mentioned in conjunction with Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade and Raymond Chandler's Phillip Marlowe, and is generally deemed as their natural heir. The respected literary critic and writer, Anthony Boucher, even argued that Ross Macdonald was a better novelist than either Hammett or Chandler.
Ross MacDonald was a pseudonym for Kenneth Millar. In the early 1970s Millar and his wife Margaret Millar (also a successful mystery author) helped lead protests following the large oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara. Many of the Archer stories take place in and around Santa Teresa, a fictionalized version of Santa Barbara.
Family secrets........2006-04-28
William Lennox, patriarch of the Lennox clan, has become very rich by virtue of his success in the oil business. But now he has been cursed two-fold. One of his wells off the coast of southern California has ruptured resulting in an uncontrolled eco-disaster involving a large segment of shoreline that ironically enough includes his own beachfront property.
At the same time, the youngest member of the Lennox family, William's married granddaughter, Laurel Lennox Russo has disappeared under mysterious circumstances. As Lew Archer searches high and low for beautiful and troubled Laurel, he uncovers a twisted saga of family dysfunction, duplicity and murder that goes back 25 years and more.
It's not hard to see the parallels between the two storylines. Drilling for oil in geologically unstable offshore terrain is likely to result in disaster. In a similar fashion, a family dynasty held together by a matrix of lies and deceit may implode upon itself at any given time.
Sleeping Beauty is worthy of a 5 star rating for a number of reasons. The characters are interesting and well fleshed out. The dialogue is authentic sounding. Macdonald's descriptive prose, always first rate, is particularly brilliant here. Moreover, the wickedly complex plot all comes together in the final pages.
Ross Macdonald wrote this novel toward the end of a very long and prolific literary career. The decades of experience show.
Best audio book I've heard.......2002-02-13
This is a superlative production. Yulin doesn't merely read, he performs, and his voice matches the role. The other parts are nearly all well played, and the music never intrudes. Atmospheric and involving for 9 hours!
The book is one of MacDonald's last, and it has some of the overwrought quality that mar his later books, but this is only occasionally a distraction.
For those looking for other MacDonalds, the best are The Chill, Far Side of the Dollar, the Zebra-Striped Hearse, The Galton Case (all from 1959-65).
Ross MacDonald's Best.......2001-03-09
One of the obvious observations about Ross MacDonald's series of Lew Archer detective novels is that they are essentially the same story. Eerily MacDonald's plot lines reflect his own troubled and unsettled childhood. On the surface, this novel is about a very troubled young woman that seems to be in the wrong place at the precisely wrong times. It seems impossible that she could be innocent of anything or everything. Nevertheless, true to MacDonald's plot form, the real villains are the immature adults that compounded their original sins year by year, lie by lie. The true crime always is years in the past in Ross MacDonald's novels. The perpetrator forever spends his or her life covering up the original crime and always enmeshing his or her child into the original felony.
Ross MacDonald's prose is simply pure art. He settles you into the tacky 40's through 60's of California and then contrasts the empty lives of the rich and the destitute. He exposes his characters as being very troubled and not very innocent. Archer, his guide/protagonist is dogged as the revelation of the true perpetrator(s) slowly emerges. Terse first person narration gives this novel a stunning sense of realism.
This is a really wonderful detective novel, a form of noir that is so special. Vintage Crime/Lizard Press has reissued most of the Archer series and they remain as vital, and entertaining as when they were first printed. I recommend working through the whole series of these wonderful reprints.
However, having read them all and having read most of them several times over, this in my opinion is the best by a far measure. The best of this series is perhaps the best of all detective novels. Chandler and Hammett did not have the power of prose that Ross MacDonald so effortlessly spins.
Excellent Production Nearly Redeems Dull Mystery.......1999-06-30
But not quite. While I wouldn't say this was a terrible novel, I also wouldn't say that it was in any way memorable. Because of the wonderful dramatization on the audio cassette, I passed an afternoon at work more pleasantly, being entertained by the acting skills of the readers. However, if I'd been merely reading a text version of this story, I wouldn't have finished it because the plot did not interest me enough to deserve my full attention. The characters are too typical of a mystery novel, the prose style unremarkable, and the ending not too exciting.
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