The Master and Margarita
Faust in Moscow with laffs and a less-straightforward moral; also a solemn and harrowing Passion play; also a revenge play on the various apparatchiks and shill artists that made Bulgakov's life a constant question mark. I loved book one, in which the devil upends Stalinist control with seances, magic tricks, telegram lulz, and horrible trolling of only somewhat venal people.
It has a sweet fairytale air over and above the murders and the Satanic chaos.
Was wondering if it's a Christian novel, but it is heretical to balls. Yeshua to Pilate:
Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once. As lightning strikes, as a Finnish knife strikes!
It has a sweet fairytale air over and above the murders and the Satanic chaos.
Follow me reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out!
Was wondering if it's a Christian novel, but it is heretical to balls. Yeshua to Pilate:
In fact, I'm beginning to fear that this confusion will go on for a long time. And all because [Mark] writes down what I said incorrectly.