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First of all, this has nothing to do with any of the Masters from certain [[Doctor Who|television]] [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|shows]], which the novel predates by more than twenty years. And now that we have established that, let's move on.
This novel was written by Mikhail Bulgakov in 1928-1940, but only published in the Soviet Union in 1966-1967 in a severely [[Bowdlerise|
The main plot nominally follows [[Satan]], who arrives with his [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]] in 1930s Moscow under the guise of a foreign Professor of the occult, Woland. His true intent is to host a periodic carnival of the dead. Much of the humor and social satire in the novel is derived from Woland and his henchmen exposing the numb-skulled bureaucratic officiousness of Soviet society. He is not truly evil, but some of his pranks prove humiliating to the faux aristocracy of the Soviet Union.
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