The Master and Margarita

The Master and Margarita is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940. A censored version, with several chapters cut by editors, was published posthumously in a Moscow magazine in 1966 and 1967 by his widow Elena Bulgakova; the manuscript was first published as a complete book in 1967 in Paris, and a samizdat version incorporating the officially censored parts appeared in Frankfurt in 1969. The novel satirizes Soviet bureaucracy and state atheism through a visit by the devil, manifested as Professor Woland, and his entourage to the officially atheist Soviet Union, combining supernatural elements with satirical dark comedy and Christian philosophy in a way that defies categorization within a single genre. Many critics consider it one of the best novels of the twentieth century and the foremost of Soviet satires. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/