Bulgakov

British  

/ bʊlˈɡakəf /

noun

1. Mikhail Afanaseyev (ʌfʌˈnasjef). 1891–1940, Soviet novelist, dramatist, and short-story writer; his novels include The Master and Margerita (1966–67)

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Example Sentences

Aficionados recognize that the Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy for the Devil” derives from Bulgakov’s “The Master and Margarita;” and “White Rabbit” by Jefferson Airplane echoes “Alice in Wonderland.”

From Los Angeles Times

A veiled chronicle of novelist Mikhail Bulgakov’s relation to a totalitarian Kremlin that banned his work, the Russian-language movie would be a satire, a paean to creative freedom, and a surrealist revenge fantasy that culminates in the burning of Moscow.

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“The Master and Margarita” went unpublished for a quarter-century after Bulgakov’s death in 1940.

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Pervaded by magic and mysticism, Bulgakov’s masterpiece was a far cry from the weary “socialist realism” mandated by an officially atheistic state.

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With its success, producers asked Lockshin whether he had any ideas about how to bring Bulgakov’s book to the screen.

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