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20350083 No.20350083 [Reply] [Original]

I seriously don't get this book at all or what people find so incredible about it.

>> No.20350127

>>20350083
Pontius part was cool but I think it was pretty bad over all.

>> No.20350147

Well youre retarded then

>> No.20350571

>>20350147
explain it then

>> No.20350582

>>20350083
Honestly no English translation does it justice.

>> No.20350597

>>20350083
The Devil and his demonic retinue arrive in post-revolutionary Moscow to celebrate Walpurgis Night. This is just incredibly funny.
I appreciate the Yershalaim chapters, I don’t really like the Master’s line, but reading about the communication of sovietic normys with natural demons, what could be more fun?

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>>20350597
>The Devil and his demonic retinue arrive in post-revolutionary Moscow to celebrate Walpurgis Night. This is just incredibly funny.
why is it incredibly funny

>> No.20350648

>>20350622
A man buys a hat and it suits him very well.

>> No.20350653

>>20350622
And why not?
Funny things are funny because they are funny, not for any other reason.

>> No.20350665

>>20350648
i see you're peeking into the end of the joke.

>> No.20350679

>>20350083
I too found it boring. Got about half-way.

>> No.20350707

The White Guard is much, MUCH better.

>> No.20350732

>>20350707
I agree. I do not quite like The Master and Margarita, but I consider it a good book, important in a general cultural sense. From a purely literary point of view, "The White Guard" is better.

>> No.20350781

>>20350083
tell me you haven't read Faust without telling me that you haven't read Faust

>> No.20350787

>>20350083
I bought the hype and was incredibly disappointed. The first chapter was great but everything afterwards was extremely dry

>> No.20351012

>>20350083
It's garbage. It's terrible even in Russian.

>> No.20351052

It’s massively overrated because the fantastical elements make it more accessible to normans

>> No.20351331

>>20350571
You're not Russian. End of story.

>> No.20351339

>>20350679
Guess you wont find out what true love means ):

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>>20350622
A Talking Cat?! was the best adaptation.

>> No.20351481

>>20350622
It's funny in the way Kafka is funny. Do you find Kafka funny anon? It's more about the situation and how absurd it is than any sort of punchline

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>>20351052

>> No.20352577

>>20351481
>Do you find Kafka funny anon?
There's nothing funny about being turned into a cockroach. That's some scary shit, no laughing matter.

>> No.20352639

>>20352577
Kafka's neighbors complained that when he was up late at night writing his shit he would lose his mind with laughter and wake everybody up because he thought what he was writing was so god damn funny. Kafka is hilarious

>> No.20353315

>>20352639
Are you sure you aren't misremembering this
>Kafka's friend, Max Brod, talked of how Kafka found humour in his dark works - especially the chilling "The Trial", which he thought a hoot, laughing so hard while reading the first chapter aloud, that he repeatedly had to stop to collect himself.

>> No.20353332

>>20353315
yeah im sure and that quote isn't even evidence to the contrary wtf

>> No.20354087

>>20350083
Some parts were boring and as a whole it felt disjointed, but I really loved Margarita as a character. She was a genuine lady badass and feminist heroine. It was refreshing.

>> No.20354716

>>20350083
How could you get it?