Korean writer Chuhe Kim is writing a Divine Comedy in the spirit of The Master and Margarita

Korean writer and Yasnaya Polyana Award winner Chohe Kim has announced that she is writing her third novel, The Divine Comedy, which will tell the story of an angel's attempts to save people around the world. She told Izvestia that she was inspired by Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita.

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"As you can see from the title of my future work, it is actually a religious work about the issue of faith. There is a common surreal plot outline here — it is dedicated to the ordeal of an angel who is trying to save people in different parts of the globe. And I want to make something similar to Bulgakov's composition. In "The Master and Margarita" realism is combined with mysticism, and in a surprisingly humorous way. He plays it amazing, inserting a character actually from hell into the Moscow reality. And we see what happens after that. I would like to have the same effect! "The Master and Margarita" is a profound and at the same time very funny work. I would like the novel I'm currently working on to be thoughtful but entertaining, too," she told Izvestia.

In the fall of 2025, Chuhe Kim's second novel, The City of Night Birds, will be released. In Russia, it is published by the publishing house Inspiria.

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