The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
This is my second attempt at really trying to appreciate this novel. I want to because it feels like I should. The jabs at Christianity recall to me Crime and Punishment and the alternative history King Jesus while I like the idea of The Devil going for a romp in Moscow as a stage performer .... and chaos ensues. However, a second act becomes so zany and surreal as to, for me, lack a center and something to maintain my attention. I find the first half witty and even incisize with the second half to border on slapstick .
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