literature hard MCQ

Mikhail Bulgakov's satirical masterpiece 'The Master and Margarita', featuring a visit by the Devil to Soviet Moscow, was:

  1. Published immediately to great state acclaim
  2. Burned by the author and published posthumously decades later
  3. Written in French and translated to Russian
  4. Banned only in the West

Answer: Burned by the author and published posthumously decades later

Fearing arrest, Bulgakov burned an early draft. He rewrote it in secret, and it was finally published in a censored form in 1966, 26 years after his death.

Topic World Literature - Russian
Exam Relevance UPSC Prelims, SSC CGL