Is Master and Margarita good?

>>8366875

It's a great read, but unless you're familiar with the Russian affairs of the time, or are having someone guide you through it who does then a lot of the satirical commentary will go over your head. Though it's a great read regardless. Bulgakov creates a lot of really memorable scenes and characters that you can enjoy at face value.

I would also recommend that you look in Chekhov and Nabokov (if you count him as Russian).

>>8366875
Yes.

Gorky's autobiography.

The six others that are posted here every single day.

>>8366875
not really, overrated
>>8367138
i had a copy with notes and while that did make it a bit better it just wasn't that jokes

>>8367180
>it just wasn't that jokes
What degenerate dialect is this?

>>8367181
i'm sorry your english is so generic, family

>>8366875
>what Russian lit is must-read
Aside from the usual bunch, Ilf and Petrov's "Twelve chairs" and "Golden Calf". And, if you would want later soviet literature, Yerofeev.

>>8367253
>Yerofeev
Hadn't heard of him. Thanks anon.

>>8368299
"Moscow to the End of the Line" is essential (unsure which translation is best, however).

>>8368315
>which translation
I'm a Swede so I usually don't have that problem :).

effing Gogol. tons of stuff by Ivan Bunin. Turgenev's Hunting Sketches.

Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich are fantastic. The Gulag Archipelago gets a lot of praise, too, will be starting it soon.

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>>8366875
i have the translation shown in your pic and it's fucking unbearable. it's like it was translated by someone with a working understanding of russian grammar, a russian-to-english dictionary, and nothing else. it's very clunky and boring, and lacking any nuance or flow. basically what you would get if you took me with my 2 years of spanish and handed me don quixote. sure, word-for-word it would be accurate, but that doesn't make it the same book.

>>8369663

I just liked that pic. I read that pic related version is supposed to be shit so I wouldn't buy that one.

>>8366875
If I only like metaphysical mystical stuff as is seen in The Master and Margarita what should I be reading?