On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, MARINA YERESHENKO wrote:
> Nalo, thanks for response._Master and Margarita_ was my favorite book as a
> teenager. It's about Satan visiting Moscow in early 30's, where official
> policy was atheism, so no one believes in God or Satan altogether. He causes
> quite a bit of trouble, but authorities either try to ignore him, or explain
> everything as magic tricks.
>
> not vice versa. The cat you remembered was part of Satan's suite, he was
> swinging on a chandeliere while shooting at KGB agents who came to arrest
> the whole crowd.
NH: See now, I knew I remembered a cat with a pistol swinging on a
chandelier! That scene was uproarious fun.
> Zamiatin's _We_ is about an anti-utopical future society, where
> everything is strictly regulated, so even when people want to have sex, they
> need to get a special coupon for that.
and
>_We_ is often compared with _The Great New World_.
NH: _Brave New World?_ That's one I have still to read. I was told that
_We_ was the inspiration for H. G. Wells's _1984._
-nalo
"Straight she's fantastical, they all do cry."
-Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle,
"Nature's Pictures," 1656
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