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Cargando... Mikhail and Margarita (2017)por Julie Himes
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Bailed. Sadly, this was a big disappointment on the heels of the brilliantly edited [b:Manuscripts Don't Burn: Mikhail Bulgakov A Life in Letters and Diaries|80693|Manuscripts Don't Burn Mikhail Bulgakov A Life in Letters and Diaries|Mikhail Bulgakov|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1348223398s/80693.jpg|77911]. Why bother with such a referential title if the book draws so little from its source? Also, I found the writing tedious and the storytelling generally lacking. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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It is 1933 and Mikhail Bulgakov's enviable career is on the brink of being dismantled. His friend and mentor, the poet Osip Mandelstam, has been arrested, tortured, and sent into exile. Meanwhile, a mysterious agent of the secret police has developed a growing obsession with exposing Bulgakov as an enemy of the state. To make matters worse, Bulgakov has fallen in love with the dangerously candid Margarita. Facing imminent arrest, and infatuated with Margarita, he is inspired to write his masterpiece, The Master and Margarita, a scathing novel critical of both power and the powerful. Ranging between lively readings in the homes of Moscow's literary elite to the Siberian Gulag, Mikhail and Margarita recounts a passionate love triangle while painting a portrait of a country whose towering literary tradition is at odds with a dictatorship that does not tolerate dissent. Margarita is a strong, idealistic, seductive woman who is fiercely loved by two very different men, both of whom will fail in their attempts to shield her from the machinations of a regime hungry for human sacrifice. Debut novelist Julie Lekstrom Himes launches a rousing defense of art and the artist during a time of systematic deception, and she movingly portrays the ineluctable consequences of love for one of history's most enigmatic literary figures. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Without giving the plot away, I think it is fair to say that Himes' story revolves around a love triangle involving Bulgakov, a state intelligence agent, and Margarita. As with many love triangles, each of the participants ends up diminished in ways they could not have anticipated. And each faces themself in the mirror frankly and exceeds our expectations as well. The Soviet Union of Stalin, and Stalin himself provides the background for the tale.
I found the novel profoundly sad, but offering insight into each of the three main characters and making their outcomes thoroughly plausible.
Reading this will give me cause to revisit The Master and Margarita once more.
Well worth giving it a read in my opinion. ( )