From: "janetcantor37 AT yahoo.com" <janetcantor37 AT yahoo.com>
To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [percy-l] re Percy and Bukgakov
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 15:44:51 -0800 (PST)
I put in Google - Walker Percy and Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita and all I could find was that the two books often appear together on lists of favorite books. Here are two examples. Also in a list of books related to Faust, both are mentioned.
I’ve just finished rereading “Love in the Ruins” -- my
fourth or fifth reading since the book was published in 1971 -- and find it even
funnier and more on target than I did during earlier readings.
On this reading I was struck by how Percy’s portrait of the
devil resembles the devil in Bulgakov’s novel “The Master and Margarita.” Is
that a book Percy was familiar with? Did he ever write about or discuss
Bulgakov?