The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov · 1966 CE · Novel · Russian · Contemporary

The devil arrives in 1930s Moscow with a retinue including a talking cat, and starts taking apart the city's literary establishment. Braided through it is a novel about Pontius Pilate, written by a man now in an asylum who burned his manuscript, and the woman who loves him. Written in secret under Stalin and unpublished for a quarter century: manuscripts don't burn.

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• reworks ↑ Faust, Part One
  Goethe · 1808 CE · Play
• influenced by ↑ The Brothers Karamazov
  Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1880 CE · Novel
• ↓ The Satanic Verses
  Salman Rushdie · 1988 CE · Novel — influenced by this

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