Woland disrupts ordinary life with his absurd antics carried out by his fiendish assistants. It intertwines a beautiful love story between a great author, the Master, and his mistress, Margarita, with the story of the devil, named Woland, arriving in Soviet Moscow. Faust by combining characters from antiquity with modern figures. Although a samizdat version of the manuscript (meaning the work was self-published as a form of dissent) had been circulating for a while, the book was only officially published in its uncensored form in 1973.īulgakov masterfully retells the ancient story of Dr. An allegory for the USSR under the cult of personality of Stalin, Bulgakov’s work was greatly restricted. The Master and Margarita is Mikhail Bulgakov’s masterpiece, written over the course of the tumultuous last twelve years of his life, from 1928-1940. The cover art features Behemoth, the devilish talking cat. I like to imagine Bulgakov writing underneath a lamp such as this one. Here is my copy of ‘The Master and Margarita’ under a 1930s banker’s lamp.
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