Re: Mikhail Bulgakov
It is a great novel. Though I think it does add much to it knowing what he was satirizing and whom.
It can be read without that and enjoyed. Like a very strange fantasy. Almost like a Harry Potter book with more complexity. For adults, etc.
I think the fact that he pulled a Velazquez on the authorities just deepens the whole thing.
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I read it a long time ago, and probably not from the best translation. Need to find the best recent version and reread.
(Suggestions for that are more than welcome)
That's also the case with Dr. Zhivago. Reading that now. The old translation by Max Hayward and Manya Harari.
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