Bulgakov, Mikhail Afanas?evich

Presents an English translation of the Russian novel written at the height of Stalin's regime, in which Satan, in the guise of a man named Woland, arrives in Moscow and begins to wreak havoc in the literary community, honing in on his real target, an author called The Master, who has written a novel about Pontius Pilate.

After failing as a novelist and botching his own suicide attempt Sergei Maksudov tries life as a playwrite in Moscow, but things go awry when the egos of actors, the jealousy of the critics, the comunist censors, and other influences take hold over the production.