A discussion about Mikhail Bulgakov's novel will bring together biblical motifs, satire, fantasy, and detective intrigue. The lecture will help to look at a familiar text without preconceived labels. Mikhail Bulgakov's novel is read as a mystical story, a satire on Soviet reality, a philosophical parable, a love story, and a text about the freedom of the artist. It is this multilayeredness that makes the conversation about the book especially lively: behind familiar scenes and quotes lie questions that cannot be answered with a single formula. The lecture will address why the work has evoked such different interpretations. Participants will analyze how the biblical line, Moscow satire, fantasy, detective intrigue, and reflections on the price of creativity coexist in one book. Special attention will be paid to how the author himself related to his last novel and why the story of the Master, Margarita, Woland, Pontius Pilate, and Moscow literati continues to resonate with 21st-century readers. Register on Timepad. You can find out where to go in St. Petersburg on our website.