Facts : 1 Response to aggressive atheistic propaganda One interpretation of the novel is that it is Bulgakov s response to poets and writers who he saw as starting atheist propaganda in the Soviet Russia, denying Jesus Christ as a historical character, particularly, to antireligious poems of Demyan Bedny
Facts : 2 It is no accident that in both Moscow and Judea part of the novel the reader can see justification of the whole devil s image
Facts : 3 Jewish demonology characters are a deliberate retort to the denial of God in the USSR
Facts : 4 Bulgakov was trying to write an apologia proving the existence of the spiritual world
Facts : 5 And the resulting question is, If those powers exist, and the world is run by Woland and his entourage, why does this world still exist?
