This diverse novel is about love, about the Devil,
about Pontius Pilate, about treachery and cowardness, about truth and deceitful
thinking. It is also a crass comedy with glitter and mischief. It is a barbed
satire.
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Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940)
was a Russian author who wrote stories, plays and novellas. He is most famous
for The Master and Margerita, which was published 25 years after his death. It
is by many deemed to be a central achievement in Russian and European
literature in the 20th century.