The Master and Margarita, Animated in Two Minutes

Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita  about a visit paid to Soviet Russia by the devil himself was written between 1928 and 1940 but didn’t come out until 1967. This suggests that Bulgakov’s literary perspective may have touched a nerve with the authorities, but the artfulness with which he expressed it has since lifted him to the top of the twentieth-century Russian canon.



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