Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even more remarkable is the fact that The Master and Margarita has become the most talked about work in Russia today. It was published in two installments in the liberal monthly Moskva, of which Soviet readers have already bought 150,000 copies (the novel has yet to appear in book form). Soviet critics, many of whom have declared it a masterpiece, discuss it endlessly. Bulgakov wrote six plays and five novels, but The Master and Margarita, which critics knew existed but had never seen in print, is perhaps his most daring work. Its publication for the first time in Russia...
...novel describes how Satan ("the master") comes to Moscow in the 1930s to cast a spell on the inhabitants. The characters, all lacking orthodox Marxian solemnity, range from a talking cat to a chambermaid who flits about her employer's flat in fluttering nudity. One of its most interesting scenes is a re-enactment of Christ's encounter with...
...latest avid Avis ad reader? None other than Russia's traveling poet and public relations man, Evgeny Ev-tushenlco, 33, who says he's going to use the auto-rental slogan as the title for a short novel on the U.S. inspired by his recent six-week tour. "I am calling it We Try Harder, because Americans work so hard," confided Evgeny, draining his fourth daiquiri in a bar in Beirut. What's more, he continued, he hoped the book would bring him some crisp U.S. greenbacks because he was flat broke, "like a little baby...
Shared Zest. Author Laxness admits that he is a rarity in Iceland: an enthusiast. His passions have carried him into and out of both the Roman Catholic Church and the Communist Party. His politics appear rarely in his books, but his poetry often. In this novel, Laxness touches with song the most unlikely events, from Jon of Skagi's self-appointment as custodian of the town lavatory to a great debate that raged in Iceland about whether the establishment of barbershops should be permitted. As a storyteller, Laxness shares with Brazil's Jorge Amado (TIME...
...affair is viewed, or rather voyeured, by an unnamed narrator. In the hazy New-Novel fashion, the exact locale is uncertain: it may be Autun, or it may be Auxerre. And the events described may have happened or they may have been invented. As the narrator puts it: "I see myself as an agent provocateur or a double agent, first on one side-that of truth-and then on the other...