Reviews of The Master and Margarita by Katherine Tiernan OConnor, Diana Lewis Burgin, Mikhail Bu... (ISBN:0679760806) | weRead
 
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Gareth posted a review at . (Language: English)
didn't like itit was okliked itloved itit was amazing
 You may soend you whiole time wondering where its going and why you're reading it but it was certainly surreal and original enough to keep me going
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Holger Rosencrantz posted a review at . (Language: English)
didn't like itit was okliked itloved itit was amazing
 overrated readable classic
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Steve posted a review at . (Language: English)
didn't like itit was okliked itloved itit was amazing
 Strange book that ive found hard going but will come back to it soon and give it another go because have been told it gets better.
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A reader posted a review at . (Language: English)
didn't like itit was okliked itloved itit was amazing
 The best of the best! My all time favourite. I can read it again and again and always discover something new
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Monika posted a review at . (Language: English)
didn't like itit was okliked itloved itit was amazing
 beautiful ,mesmerazing,great....
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Pedro posted a review at . (Language: French)
didn't like itit was okliked itloved itit was amazing
 Selon les Russes, le meilleur livre jamais écrit était le roman Le maître et Marguerite de Mikhaïl Boulgakov. Aujourd'hui, le centre de recherche du portail de recrutement russe SuperJob.ru a présenté les résultats d'un interrogatoire ouvert parmi 3000 personnes de toutes les régions du pays, qui ont répondu à la question: “quel livre (de la littérature) considérez-vous le meilleur ?”.

Le premier livre dans le classement des meilleurs était Le maître et Marguerite. Il a été mentionné par 16 % de ceux qui ont été interrogés et il a été décrit comme un "roman très divertissant et instructif”. En dépit du fait que beaucoup d'années sont passées depuis le moment de sa redaction, le caractère de Boulgakov, sa mentalité et ses pensées sont toujours vivantes en Russie.

Pour 7 % de Russes le meilleur livre est Guerre et Paix de L.N. Tolstoï. Crime et Châtiment de F.M. Dostoïevski est le meilleur livre pour 3 % des Russes. Il vaut la peine pour noter que, en plus de ce roman, L'Idiot et Les Frères Karamazov de Dostoïevski ont été aussi mentionnés parmi les meilleurs oeuvres littéraires.

Il est intéressant de voir que Mikhaïl Boulgakov a subjugué les coeurs de toutes les générations de Russes, alors que les oeuvres de Tolstoï et Dostoïevski étaient plus souvent mentionnés par les gens de plus de 35 ans.

D'autres travaux classiques mentionnés dans la liste des meilleurs livres étaient Le Comte de Monte-Cristo et Les Trois Mousquetaires d' Alexandre Dumas, Eugène Onegin de A.S. Pushkin, Le malheur d'avoir trop d'esprit de A.S. Griboïedov, Les Âmes Mortes de N.V. Gogol, Anna Karenina par L.N. Tolstoï et Trois Camarades et À l'Ouest, rien de nouveau par E. M. Remarque.

Des oeuvres d'auteurs contemporains ont été mentionnés les romans Cent Ans de Solitude de G.G. Marquez, L'Alchimiste de P. Coelho, Harry Potter de J.K. Rowling, Le Chariot de diamant de B. Akounine et L'amour dure trois ans de F. Beigbeder.

22 % des Russes a trouvé difficile de nommer un "meilleur livre jamais écrit”.
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Suzy posted a review at . (Language: English)
didn't like itit was okliked itloved itit was amazing
 If there is one book everybody should read, this is the one!!!
Did you know that The Rolling Stones wrote " Sympathy for the Devil" after reading this masterpiece?
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Daniela posted a review at . (Language: German)
didnit was okliked itloved itit was amazing
 I hate this book.
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Eliza posted a review at . (Language: English)
didn't like itit was okliked itloved itit was amazing
 There's nothing can say about this book that others haven't said before me. It's daring, it's witty, it's cynical, and never boring. It's a satire, it's a love story, it's an absurdist play, it's a Bildungsroman, it's a postmodern take on Faust, it's a protest against censorship. Or, as the book's Wiki page informs you, "part of its literary brilliance lies in the different levels on which it can be read, as hilarious slapstick, deep philosophical allegory, and biting socio-political satire critical of not just the Soviet system but also the superficiality and vanity of modern life in general" And because of this characteristic, "The Master and Margarita" is one of those books that you can't just digest in one read. At first I had mixed feelings about it - it was always intriguing, exciting, yes, but not lovable enough, I thought. Its light and talkative tone didn't seem, to me, to capture the agony and pain of people's lives in Stalinist Moscow. Moreover, with the possible exception of Behemoth, the vodka-drinking, chess-playing, pistol-toting cat, the book had no characters that one truly cares for. Or that's what I felt as I was reading it. You can see why, then, it surprises me that weeks after finishing the novel I find its colourful cast of characters - Woland, Azazello, Behemoth, the Master, Margarita, Ivan Ponyrov, and Pontius Pilate - frequently popping into my head and putting a smile on my face. It probably won't go down as one of my favourite books, but it is certainly memorable, unique, and unlike anything I've ever read.
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Barry posted a review at . (Language: English)
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 Vastly over-rated. Supposedly a fantastical satire, but really so obvious that it doesn't work at all. Satire should have some subtlety. Nothing clever about it.
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