Voland ends up punishing the bad Muscovites while rewarding the good, echoing his most famous literary counterpart who’s “part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works well.”īulgakov was active during the rise of the artistically wild Russian avant-garde movement that peaked between 1917 (Russian Revolution) and 1930s (beginning of Stalin’s tyranny). In one storyline Devil, who presents as a middle-aged man named Voland (transliterated also as Woland) with his grotesque entourage of demons-in-disguise visit Moscow and instigate a form of organised chaos. Here we have two interacting plots: one of passionate love and the other a strained encounter between Jesus and Pontius Pilate. Having read and reread “The Master and Margarita” by the great Russian writer Mihail Bulgakov – a blend of fantasy and reality (known also as magical realism) – you might glean that my heart is seduced by this diabolical novel ‘par excellence’.
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