![]() ![]() Caption: article-etc01.2 First published 26 years after his death in 1940, Bulgakov's extraordinary satire of life under the political, cultural, religious and bureaucratic strictures of Stalinist tyranny has been variously described as Solzhenitsyn crossed with Lewis Carroll and the most powerful Russian novel of the 20th century. The underground masterpiece of twentieth-century Russian fiction, this classic novel was written during Stalins regime and could not be published until. A classic that can be read on many levels, it's played strictly for laughs by Julian Rhind-Tutt. ![]() She makes a Faustian pact with the devil for true love's sake so that the Master can write his precious books without fear of arrest. But maybe I'd be, too, if I had the magic ointment that makes one look 10 years younger. Bulgakov's include Pontius Pilate, a talking cat who puts on black-rimmed spectacles to read official documents quite often upside down, the devil at whose annual grand ball Stravinsky conducts the band, a poet imprisoned in a psychiatric asylum not unconnected with the Master of the title, and his ever-faithful lover Margarita. His cast of characters, real and imaginary, make Dickens's dramatis personae appear sparse. First published 26 years after his death in 1940, Bulgakov's extraordinary satire of life under the political, cultural, religious and bureaucratic strictures of Stalinist tyranny has been variously described as Solzhenitsyn crossed with Lewis Carroll and the most powerful Russian novel of the 20th century. ![]()
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