Mikhail Bulgakov
Russian author whose satirical and fantastical fiction was suppressed during his lifetime but has since been recognized as among the greatest of the 20th century. The Master and Margarita is his masterpiece, a devastatingly comic vision of Soviet Moscow visited by the Devil.
Works
- The Master and MargaritaDevil visits Soviet Moscow amid tragic love story and subversive philosophical questions
- The White GuardNovel of Russian Civil War depicting a bourgeois family's moral and physical destruction
- Heart of a DogSatirical novella about a dog given human consciousness and the chaos that ensues
- The Fatal EggsDystopian fable where a scientist's experiment with magical eggs unleashes biological chaos
- A Country Doctor's NotebookCollection of stories from a young rural doctor's notebook during the Russian Revolution