Mikhail Bulgakov

The Master and Margarita

Devil visits Soviet Moscow amid tragic love story and subversive philosophical questions

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Mikhail Bulgakov
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.

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