![]() ![]() Woland introduces himself as a foreign professor specializing in black magic. “If you really want to understand Russia, in particular the Russian people or just people in general, the book you have to read is one you’ve probably never heard of, it’s called The Master and Margarita.”Ī classic of Soviet literature penned by Mikhail Bulgakov during the height of 1930s Stalinist repression, the book opens when a peculiar man named Woland sits beside two members of Moscow’s intellectual elite on a park bench in the heart of the city. ![]() “Neither” she quickly replied, shaking her head. At the time, I had yet to read the classics of Russian literature, so one day while walking to class I asked for her advice: “where should I start, Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy?” A close friend in college emigrated to the US from Russia shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union. ![]()
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