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Carnival
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Bulgakov always loved clowning and agreed with E. T. A. Hoffmann that irony and buffoonery are expressions of ‘the deepest contemplation contemplation of life in all its conditionality’.
It is not by chance that his stage adaptations of the comic masterpieces of Gogol and Cervantes coincided with the writing of The Master and Margarita. Behind such specific ‘influences’ stands the age-old tradition of folk humour with its carnivalized world-view, its reversals and dethronings, its relativizing
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― The Master and Margarita
― The Master and Margarita
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The sun had begun its descent toward the horizon, and the sounds of the carnival played like a familiar song behind me.
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― Freeks
― Freeks
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