Diaboliad

Beloved classic once again raises the problem of the “little man.”

Mikhail Bulgakov’s works share a common theme—and, one might say, a single character from the 1920s. This is the collective unconscious, whose voice Bulgakov as a feuilletonist of metropolitan newspapers and magazines sensed with remarkable sensitivity. His journalistic work allowed the prose writer to see and evaluate firsthand the frightening results of a social experiment carried out by the Bolsheviks.

The novella “Deviliada” provides a broad political, social, and everyday panorama of the 1920s.