As Bulgakov wrote the novel Master and Margarita

One of the properties of literature is the desire to synthesize all its current achievements, to generalize, to bring into the system. As an example, we can recall the “Bead Game” by Hesse, “Doctor Faustus” Mann, “The Brothers Karamazov” by Dostoevsky.

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The story of the creation of the novel "The Master and Margarita" is still shrouded in secrets, however, like the novel itself, which does not cease to be the focus of riddles for the reader. It is not even known exactly when Bulgakov came up with the idea of ​​writing a work that is now known as “The Master and Margarita” (this name appeared in Bulgakov’s drafts relatively shortly before the creation of the final version of the novel).

The time it took Bulgakov from the ripening of the idea to the final version of the novel amounted to about ten years, which indicates how thoroughly Bulgakov took up the novel and what, apparently, he had significance for him. And Bulgakov seemed to have foreseen everything in advance, because "The Master and Margarita" was the last work he wrote. Bulgakov did not even have time to finish the literary revision of the novel, she stopped somewhere in the second part.