A character in this work refuses to stop his own punishment by claiming that "all power is a form of violence exercised over people."  
A character in this work refuses to stop his own punishment by claiming that "all power is a form of violence exercised over people."  Another character in this work has his head lopped off by a trolley after his death was prophesied, leading to a comic chase that sees a poet land in an insane asylum.  One character in this work has a posse that include Hella, Behemoth, Kovoriev- Faggot, and Azazello, a naked maid, black cat, clown, and evil trickster, respectively.  That character, Woland, reincarnates one of the title characters' manuscripts, which tells the story of Yeshua Ha-Notsri, a "rabble- rouser from Galilee" who is really Jesus Christ.  FTP, name this work in which the title woman makes a Faustian pact with the devil to be with her lover, the titular nameless writer, a work of Mikhail Bulgakov.
A character in this work refuses to stop his own punishment by claiming that "all power is a form of violence exercised over people."  
The {Master and Margarita} (2) [AH]