Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses and Makhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita share a similar concern: the role of the artist in society. Rushdie and Bulgakov see the artist as one who disrupts the quotidian. Without the occasional contention, a society, or any institution—be it collective or individual—may become complacent and prone to tyranny. Rushdie [...]
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Bulgakov and Pasternak
While both Bulgakov and Pasternak share social, national, and cultural concerns, their similarities seem to lie on a deeper, more subtle, level. Their respect for the artist and his/her creative spirit, drive to propagate their beliefs, and individuality far outweigh, in their respective views, the concerns of society and its assumed moral stances and degradation. [...]
