About the book
The devil arrives in 1930s Moscow as one Professor Woland, with a retinue that includes an assassin, a naked witch and a talking black cat, in Mikhail Bulgakov's satire of Soviet bureaucracy and official atheism. His antics throw the city's literary elite into chaos. Meanwhile the Master, who wrote an unpublished novel about Pontius Pilate and Jesus, sinks into despair in a psychiatric hospital. The narrative moves between Moscow and ancient Jerusalem, mixing the supernatural, dark comedy and Christian philosophy. Bulgakov worked on it from 1928 until his death in 1940, and it first appeared after his death, in a censored magazine version.
Jordan B. Peterson included it in the suggested readings for Maps of Meaning, and musician Andi Dumitrescu named it as a more rational, if slightly snobbish, choice of favorite.
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Andi Dumitrescu (Musician, Film Maker)
If I had to make a more rational choice, I’d go with Ulises or The Master and Margareta, but I think that choice is a bit snobbish.
On Jordan B. Peterson’s Maps of Meaning: Suggested Readings & Russian Translation - Jordan Peterson
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