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Bulgakov started to write this book in 1929. However, since he didn't believe in his future as a russian novelist, he simply burned the manuscript in 1930. A second draft was written in 1936 and the final version was completed only in 1940 just before his death.
The plot comprises two stories: in the first one, Voland who is visited by the Devil; the second one is the re-creation tale of Christ facing his tormentor Pontius Pilate in a t ...more
What to say about this book?
Bulgakov started to write this book in 1929. However, since he didn't believe in his future as a russian novelist, he simply burned the manuscript in 1930. A second draft was written in 1936 and the final version was completed only in 1940 just before his death.
The plot comprises two stories: in the first one, Voland who is visited by the Devil; the second one is the re-creation tale of Christ facing his tormentor Pontius Pilate in a t ...more
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Bulgakov writes this novel during the time of Stalin. It is highly symbolic and sometimes amusing. I needed assistance from online commentaries to understand it. The novel criticizes multiple aspects of Soviet life at the time. Many people disappear, citizens inform on one another, the literary industry is corrupt, etc. This book was published 26 years after the authors death. I have no doubt that if it had been published in his lifetime he would have been among the multitudes who "disappeared".
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