If you haven't read Bulgakov's brilliant "Master and Margarita," you will greatly enjoy it. Satan engages a couple of Soviet intellectuals on a park bench in a philosophical discussion of life and death (Moscow in the late 1920s) and rather forcefully demonstrates that man does not plan his own life because life can end--quite suddenly. …
If you haven't read Bulgakov's brilliant "Master and Margarita," you will greatly enjoy it. Satan engages a couple of Soviet intellectuals on a park bench in a philosophical discussion of life and death (Moscow in the late 1920s) and rather forcefully demonstrates that man does not plan his own life because life can end--quite suddenly. The rest of the tale of the visit of Satan and his coterie to Soviet Moscow flows from that initial, grounding dialogue. BTW, the book inspired the Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil."
That sounds like a fascinating read! Not familiar with it, but definitely familiar with "Sympathy for the Devil" haha. I can absolutely see the connection.
If you haven't read Bulgakov's brilliant "Master and Margarita," you will greatly enjoy it. Satan engages a couple of Soviet intellectuals on a park bench in a philosophical discussion of life and death (Moscow in the late 1920s) and rather forcefully demonstrates that man does not plan his own life because life can end--quite suddenly. The rest of the tale of the visit of Satan and his coterie to Soviet Moscow flows from that initial, grounding dialogue. BTW, the book inspired the Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil."
That sounds like a fascinating read! Not familiar with it, but definitely familiar with "Sympathy for the Devil" haha. I can absolutely see the connection.