The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov

The Master and Margarita: Unreliable Narrator 1 key example

Chapter 18. Hapless Visitors
Explanation and Analysis—This Truthful Narrative:

By the end of Book One in The Master and Margarita, so much has gone awry that sparrows dancing the foxtrot and a disappearing, fanged nurse in Professor Kuzmin’s office seem less like exceptions than the expectation. Closing Chapter 18, Bulgakov ironically ushers the reader into the work’s next section with verbal irony:

We do not know what other fantastical events took place in Moscow that night and, of course, we shall not try to search them out—especially since the time has come for us to go on to the second part of this truthful narrative. Follow me, reader!