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The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov · 1967

Mikhail Bulgakov's novel of the devil arriving in Soviet Moscow, named by Peter Thiel as a more intellectual favorite novel in Conversations with Tyler.

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FictionLiteratureRussia

The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov · 1967

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Mikhail Bulgakov · Novelist and playwright

If you want something a little more intellectual, it’s probably the Bulgakov novel The Master and Margarita.
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Conversations with Tyler · episode transcript page accessed 2026-06-23 · accessed 2026-06-23

In the transcript, Cowen asks Thiel for his favorite novel and Thiel names Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita after The Lord of the Rings.

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