A Mester és Margarita c. regény művészi világa

Abstract

“The manuscripts don’t burn,” said Woland, the enigmatic Satan of Bulgakov’s novel. Bulgakov paints a suggestive picture of Moscow, the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s, by means of satire, grotesque and fantasy. At all ages, it validly presents the personal offerings of historical tortures, the eternal problem of a man struggling between bounds, a caller, and an unbelieving, fluctuating man. The main characters in the novel are unforgettable: Woland, who is both Satan and a representative of higher justice; the Master, who became the eternal symbol of the Artist opposed to the machinery of power, and - novel in the novel - tells the story of Jesus in a peculiar way.