5/13/2023 0 Comments This Fierce Blood by Malia Márquez![]() ![]() Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. ![]() Though completed in 1940, "The Master and Margarita" wasn't published in Moscow until 1966, when the first part appeared in the magazine "Moskva." It was an immediate and enduring success: audiences responded with great enthusiasm to its expression of artistic and spiritual freedom. Its central characters, Woland (Satan) and his retinue-including the vodka-drinking black cat, Behemoth the poet, Ivan Homeless Pontius Pilate and a writer known only as The Master, and his passionate companion, Margarita-exist in a world that blends fantasy and chilling realism, an artful collage of grotesqueries, dark comedy, and timeless ethical questions. Combining two distinct yet interwoven parts-one set in ancient Jerusalem, one in contemporary Moscow-the novel veers from moods of wild theatricality with violent storms, vampire attacks, and a Satanic ball to such somber scenes as the meeting of Pilate and Yeshua, and the murder of Judas in the moonlit garden of Gethsemane to the substanceless, circus-like reality of Moscow. ![]() Mikhail Bulgakov's devastating satire of Soviet life was written during the darkest period of Stalin's regime. ![]()
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