I'd have to disagree Bulgakov's Master and Margarita is an unbridled joy.
Borderline magical realism - it's more like Animal Farm or Gulliver's Travels, ie straight social satire. And I missed something in the translation I read, because I didn't think it was that great.
Oh, and we're coming close to another of my pet hates, writers who write excessively about writing, other writers, publishers, or life as a professor of literature at small, liberal American arts colleges.
Borderline magical realism - it's more like Animal Farm or Gulliver's Travels, ie straight social satire. And I missed something in the translation I read, because I didn't think it was that great.
Oh, and we're coming close to another of my pet hates, writers who write excessively about writing, other writers, publishers, or life as a professor of literature at small, liberal American arts colleges.