This is Bulgakov's semi-autobiographical story of a writer who fails to sell his novel and fails to commit suicide. When his play is taken up by the theatre, literary success beckons, but he has reckoned without the grotesquely inflated egos of the actors, directors and theatre managers.
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Como tantos otros creadores e intelectuales de la Unión Soviética, Mijaíl Bulgákov (1891-1940) fue hostigado y perseguido por sus críticas al sistema. Por ello no vio publicada en vida su obra maestra, "El maestro y Margarita", que sólo pudo ver la luz de forma póstuma en 1966.