/lit/ - Literature

>>10936043
He gives it back at least.

>>9970232
Okay, so it's not EXACTLY a cover, but I use it as one anyway.

I have a variation of pic related on the inside of my right bicep.

Burgin & O'Connor was fine.

Yes. In my opinion, it was one of the most brilliant novels ever written. Every line is essential. The way he weaves his knowledge of history, religion, and the occult into a captivating love story is like nothing I've ever experienced. I know people reduce it to a criticism of Stalinist Russia, but it is far, FAR deeper than that.

The Master and Margarita is probably the greatest work of 20th Century Russian lit.

ITT: your top three favorite Russian fiction works.

1: Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
2: The Idiot - Dostoievski
3: Any collection of short stories - Chekhov

In two hundred years time, what current contemporary literature will be studied in universities?

>inb4 sarcastic trite replies

>>7753199
The Master and Margarita.
>>7753240
>soviet Russian when it wasn't the greatest time to write a satirical book
Dude wrote it under Stalin's regime and somehow lived. That's insane.
>cursed apartment which residents go missing everybody is ignoring it.
>Varenuhka going to the "appropriate people" to report Woland and goes missing himself
>"Someone else has long been living in the basement, and generally it never happens that anything goes back to what it used to be"
>give up your currency

I'm about to start reading The Master and Margarita. I was raised in an agnostic family and am not really well-read, so I'm not sure that I will follow the biblical themes. Is there anything I should read up on before reading?

I was thinking of reading Faust, but I've seen the film by Svankmajer and therefore know the basic premise of the first act. Any recommendations?