I am at Chapter 7 of Master and Margarita and I am so lost. What the heck is going on.
Like, sure, I can tell you what is literally happening, who said what, but I can tell it’s layered; what the deeper meaning is still out of reach.
I’m only a tad bit familiar with Soviet Union history. I was considering reading 1984 first to get more context but I understand that those are different timelines? What book/s can I read first? I’ve only read Animal Farm.
I have done my research on censorship etc., what other subject matters would help me wrap my head around this book?
I like historical fiction, I appreciate allegory, love love symbolisms, but this is whimsically absurd + artistic + philosophical + lots of historical and art references I’m not familiar with (I’m not Russian so it’s all very foreign.)
Normally I’d like those as individual themes, but it’s all in this book.
It’s either my head or the book being all over the place. And for some reason I appreciate it more because this book is a direct result of censorship and feat under Stalin’s regime.
by thehoomanreads
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Google some reading guides online, there’s plenty of them. There’s a lot going on in that book that unless you are familiar with the context and analogy is just a bunch of weird things happening to weird people. 1984 isn’t going to help and I can’t think of any other book that will either.
The only story I can think of that will help to know is that of Pontius Pilate from the gospels.