The Master and Margarita - Critique
“You can now finish your novel with only one word!” - “Free!”
By Lana V LynxPublished 3 years ago • Updated 3 years ago • 1 min read
The Master and Margarita; illustration by Nadya Rusheva
Bulgakov’s novel is arguably the world’s best-known work by a modern Russian writer. However, Bulgakov would have been horrified that his “novel of temptation by evil” became a mass culture commodity. He wrote it for one reader - Stalin - pleading to set free dissident writers kept in lunatic asylums.
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Lana V Lynx
Avid reader and occasional writer of satire and short fiction. For my own sanity and security, I write under a pen name. My books: Moscow Calling - 2017 and President & Psychiatrist
@lanalynx.bsky.social
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