Some may enjoy digging into the book’s philosophical layers (good vs evil, light vs darkness, freedom vs bondage, the nature of man, religion etc) but for the rest of us the book stands as terrifically comic, surreal fiction. There’s lots of info online about the book so no need for spoilers here! Just to say it’s an unforgettably absurd book that deserves to read if only for the demonic talking cat. Īs well, the novel’s parallel story of Pontius Pilate inspires the next verse: but the subject of your learned discussion is so interesting that. “Please, excuse me,” he said, speaking correctly, but with a foreign accent, “for presuming to speak to you without an introduction. …with the first words of the devil (Professor Woland) when he shows up at Patriarch Ponds… Just compare the opening lyrics of ‘Sympathy’… Jagger went on to write ‘Sympathy for the devil’ soon after reading the book and it shows… Bulgakov is one of the greatest Russian writers, perhaps the greatest Independent. Marianne Faithful gave him a copy in 67′ (the book was published in 66′, 30 years after Bulgakov’s death). Mikhail Bulgakovs devilish salute to artistic freedom, now in a beautiful clothbound edition. It’s uniquely bizarre, brilliantly funny and like nothing I’ve ever read.įor Stones fans out there (aren’t we all?) - important things first: The Master and Margarita is Mick Jagger’s favourite book. Mikhail Bulgakov’s ‘The Master and Margarita’ is a dark, satirical comedy set in 1930s Moscow.
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