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Title: Dread and great laughs
Review: Bulgakov died in 1940, this book was rediscovered in 1966. There are so many things to be said about this work and there are lots of different levels to explore. It's a fantastic bizarre story where nothing is impossible, for example a cat smokes cigar and knows how to use a gun. The restrictive cultural climate in USSR by this time is also something Bulagov critizes. It's a fascinating piece of work, with a great sense of humour that is absurd. The fictional land Bulgakov has painted is incredibly colorful. The book begins with a mystical stranger who enters Moskow and soon dreadful things starts to happen, still that doesn't stop the story from being very funny. This is a timeless novel that I think will survive through the years.
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