![]() ![]() He said the meek would “inherit” the earth. Some people might say that’s unrealistic, but note Jesus’ word choice. Why? Because in both Purity and A Little Princess, the meek inherit the earth. ![]() It reminds me of one of my favorite books ever, A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. What keeps me going is the title, The Master and Margarita, which promises a love story between Faust and Gretchen (short for Margarethe). I feel I am learning things I hadn’t wanted to know about the minds of the people who raved to me about this book. I’m only on page forty-six (of the 1997 Pevear/Volokhonsky translation, a paperback from Penguin Classics), but so far it’s a humorous take on how the Jews killed Jesus-Gogol with the politics of Dostoevsky. What can I say? My most stunning realization of the past seventy-two hours has been that Jonathan Franzen borrowed the epigraph of his new novel Purity from Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita. ![]()
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