Book Report

Do you enjoy a good book? I've read a lot of books in my life, but one of them stands out as possibly the best novel. It is a work by a little known Russian author by the name of Mikhail Bulgakov. Even some Russians haven't heard of him. He did most of his work in the 1930's, I think, during Stalin's reign. He had the balls to write a letter to Stalin complaining of how literary freedom was suppressed under the Soviet regime. For this Bulgakov was not sent to a gulag but assigned to an artsy job. The Master and Margarita is not just a great page turner, it gets you thinking. Communist Russia was anti-religious and this story shows how the spirit of Russian culture was compromised by the suffocating dogma of the party. I personally find the greed of capitalism anti-religious and suppressive, at least when it is left unchecked for a couple of years with my music and writing in the hands of frauds. I won't spoil the story by telling you about it. I'll only tell you that one of the leading characters in the story is Satan. He takes on a strangely heroic role and even asks the Lord to save the souls of two of the other characters. Of course, it is a work of fiction and its author was clearly using the character of Satan in a vengeful, personal way. It ought not to be misunderstood as offering religious instruction.
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