A classic of Stalin-era Russian literature.
The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow. His retinue includes two demons, a naked girl and a huge black cat which talks, walks upright, smokes cigars and is a dead shot with a Mauser automatic. Some of the devil’s pranks are sheer anarchic fun, more often they are chosen to bring out the worst in everybody. When he leaves, the asylums are full, the forces of law and order are in disarray and the population is haunted with feelings of guilt and shame. Amid this bizarre pantomime two people remain undiminished — the Master, a man single-mindedly devoted to the truth, and Margarita, the woman he loves. Mikhail Bulgakov’s masterpiece is part fantasy, part satire, in part a story of fierce and splendid comic absurdity.
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