02 May 2026
by Luca Antonini Poignant paradoxes, unthinkable metaphors and bewitched fantasies captivate, incessantly, the reader of The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, involving him in an intoxicating journey that can make him fall madly in love with the novel, perhaps his masterpiece and one of the most beautiful in the history of world literature. This year marks sixty years since the first edition, which, in a heavily censored version, took place in the Soviet Union; strangely, because it is a novel in which a radical criticism of communist ideology and above all of atheism takes place. Bulgakov, in this work, recruits an exceptional witness, Woland, that is, the devil himself, who, in the guise of a mysterious stranger, suddenly inserts himself into the dialogue at the very beginning of the novel …
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