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The Master and Margarita

(Penguin Classics)

By Richard Pevear, Mikhail Bulgakov, Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)

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| Paperback | 9780141180144

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Mikhail Bulgakov's devastating satire of Soviet life was written during the darkest period of Stalin's regime. Combining two distinct yet interwoven parts-one set in ancient Jerusalem, one in contemporary Moscow-the novel veers from moods of wild theatricality with violent storms, vampire attacks, Continue

Mikhail Bulgakov's devastating satire of Soviet life was written during the darkest period of Stalin's regime. Combining two distinct yet interwoven parts-one set in ancient Jerusalem, one in contemporary Moscow-the novel veers from moods of wild theatricality with violent storms, vampire attacks, and a Satanic ball; to such somber scenes as the meeting of Pilate and Yeshua, and the murder of Judas in the moonlit garden of Gethsemane; to the substanceless, circus-like reality of Moscow. Its central characters, Woland (Satan) and his retinue-including the vodka-drinking, black cat, Behemoth; the poet, Ivan Homeless; Pontius Pilate; and a writer known only as The Master, and his passionate companion, Margarita-exist in a world that blends fantasy and chilling realism, an artful collage of grostesqueries, dark comedy, and timeless ethical questions.

Although completed in 1940, The Master and Margarita was not published in Moscow until 1966, when the first part appeared in the magazine Moskva. It was an immediate and enduring success: Audiences responded with great enthusiasm to its expression of artistic and spiritual freedom. This new translation has been created from the complete and unabridged Russian texts.

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  • The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

    First published 26 years after his death in 1940, Bulgakov's extraordinary satire of life under the political, cultural, religious and bureaucratic strictures of Stalinist tyranny has been variously described as Solzhenitsyn crossed with Lewis Carrol ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

  • Sympathy for the Devil

    In an early chapter of Mikhail Bulgakov’s funny and frightening novel, The Master and Margarita, written between 1928 and 1940 and now available in four different English translations, a character loses his head – literally. He slips on a Moscow stre ... (read full critics)

    lrb published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010

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    I don't know how many times I read it, four times maybe... I'm sure that if I would start reading it again, I would enjoy it just like the first time. A masterpiece.

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    TonySz said on Jun 20, 2011 | Add your feedback

  • The book worth reading in Russian like Crime and Punishment(Dostoevsky) or War and Piece (Tolstoy).

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    Annet said on May 2, 2011 | Add your feedback

  • I think it takes more than one reading to understand it properly (and I haven't read it more than once), anyway it is brilliant!

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    Chiaragattinoni said on Jun 12, 2010 | Add your feedback

  • I am situated squarely in the middle and will pick this book back up and finish it sometime this year. Although it is abandoned, I was enjoying it.

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    Antonia said on Jan 2, 2009 | Add your feedback

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