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Author · 1891–1940

Mikhail Bulgakov

Russian novelist and playwright, largely unpublished in his lifetime.

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The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov · 1967

Bulgakov's 1967 novel, written in secret over a decade and banned until his death, weaves together three narratives. The brief covers the plot in two minutes, the political allegory in three, and why the book survived suppression to become one of the century's definitive critiques of authority.