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The Master and Margarita

The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov

Finished
April 2024
Status
reading
Tags
fiction russian satire

Review

About 200 pages in. The Devil arrives in Stalinist Moscow with a retinue including a giant talking cat, and proceeds to wreak havoc on a literary establishment too ideologically blinkered to even register what's happening. The funniest book about totalitarianism I have ever read.