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The Master and Margarita’s enduring literary legacy inside Russia and beyond – ABC News
It was never meant to be published, but in the decades since readers got their hands on The Master and Margarita, its magnetic pull has only grown. It’s helped forge relationships, changed lives and inspired a legion of artists.
Baz Luhrmann was shooting Romeo + Juliet when a crewmember told him about a book that he thought the filmmaker should read.
The 1930s satirical novel features a suave Satan arriving in a city to hold a magic show, time travels back to the Crucifixion, and merges into a magical love story.
“He said to me ‘You know there’s only one person in the world that can make this novel into a film it’s you’,” Luhrmann tells ABC RN’s The History Listen.
“I was beguiled by…
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