Mikhaïl Bulgàkov

El mestre i Margarida és la novel·la més coneguda de l'escriptor rus Mikhaïl Bulgàkov. Esdevinguda un clàssic de la literatura russa del s. XX, la popular sàtira soviètica relata la visita del diable a l'atea Unió Soviètica, on sembra el caos enmig d'una societat sufocada pel burocràtic ordre social.

A world-famous Moscow professor -- rich, successful, and violently envied by his neighbors -- befriends a stray dog and resolves to achieve a daring scientific "first" by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary grand of a dead man. But the results are wholly unexpected: a distinctly and worryingly human …

The White Guard is a novel by 20th-century Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov, famed for his critically acclaimed later work The Master and Margarita.

Brilliant stories that show the growth of a novelist's mind, and the raw material that fed the wild surrealism of Bulgakov's later fiction.With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr. Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia which, in 1916-17, was still largely unaffected by …