Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita is at once a pointed satire of the venal and corrupt literary establishment of 1930s Moscow and an artistic re-envisioning of Christ, the Devil, and man – deeply influenced by Mephistopheles’s self-description in Faust. The novel explores themes of universal human significance, emphasizing forgiveness and reconciliation on a grand … Continue reading Michael Lockshin’s Master and Margarita: Bulgakov Reduced to Walter Mitty