Empanadita
📚 Literary fiction, classics, some fantasy and non fiction 🗺️ Looking for local perspectives (and dumplings 🥟) from around the world
4336 points
October 2026
3.96 average · 103 reviews
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There's a reason this book is part of the Fever Dreams Quest 🤯 If you're looking for a wild ride with speaking cats, flying broomsticks and lots of madness, this one's for you!
Enjoyment For me, the chapters range between 3 and 5 stars regarding enjoyment. Some were just fantastic and some just confused me. But it definitely never got boring!
Quality The sheer amount of thought and ingenuity Bulgakov poured into this novel is truly impressive, nothing more to add.
Characters Those characters are so unique! Margarita is remarkably strong-willed and courageous, Behemoth (the speaking cat) is delightfully mischievous, and Voland (the devil) is not purely evil but rather morally ambiguous. I could totally read more about the adventures of Behemoth and Koroviev!
Plot This is where it gets a bit difficult because there's a plot in the plot which later connect with each other. The sense of it was not completely clear tbh though I have some ideas. By the end of the first part I wasn't so convinced of the book anymore but luckily it changed in part two.
James
Percival Everett
I just remembered how we read a Goethe retelling for German class at school and read some parts of the original for comparison. This would be such an interesting thing to do here as well! Not just as a literary exercise but also to educate on the history of slavery and racism. We didn't learn that much about it at school which is just crazy. And I think this book could be a good opportunity to do so plus you have a classic as basis which you can also analyse!
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