Futile Political Gestures: Performing Futility: Post-Truth and the Politics of Insincerity

Natalie C. Morningstar

‘Invisible and free!’ So begins one of the more chaotic scenes in Bulgakov’s (1997[1966]) The Master and Margarita. After being granted the gift of flight, Margarita embarks on a euphoric rampage through Moscow’s city streets. Unleashed but unseen by her targets, she revels in mostly harmless mayhem. An absurdist account of life under Stalin’s rule,Read more