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The Master and Margarita
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The Master and Margarita Paperback - 1996

by Mikhail Bulgakov

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  • Title The Master and Margarita
  • Author Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage, New York
  • Date 1996-03-19
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0679760806.G
  • ISBN 9780679760801 / 0679760806
  • Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.2 x 0.9 in (20.32 x 13.21 x 2.29 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Moscow (Russia), Devil
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95045873
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Summary

Nothing in the whole of literature compares with The Master and Margarita. Full of pungency and wit, this luminous work is Bulgakov's crowning achievement, skilfully blending magical and realistic elements, grotesque situations and major ethical concerns. Written during the darkest period of Stalin's repressive reign and a devastating satire of Soviet life, it combines two distinct yet interwoven parts, one set in contemporary Moscow, the other in ancient Jerusalem, each brimming with incident and with historical, imaginary, frightful and wonderful characters. Although completed in 1940, The Master and Margarita was not published until 1966 when the first section appeared in the monthly magazine Moskva. Russians everywhere responded enthusiastically to the novel's artistic and spiritual freedom and it was an immediate and enduring success. This new translation has been made from the complete and unabridged Russian text.

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“One of the truly great Russian novels of [the twentieth] century.”
—NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

“The book is by turns hilarious, mysterious, contemplative,
and poignant . . . A great work.”
—CHICAGO TRIBUNE

“Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita is a soaring, dazzling novel; an extraordinary fusion of wildly disparate elements. It is a concerto played simultaneously on the organ, the bagpipes, and a pennywhistle, while someone sets off fireworks between the players’ feet.”
—NEW YORK TIMES

“Fine, funny, imaginative . . . The Master and Margarita stands squarely in the great Gogolesque tradition of satiric narrative.”
—NEWSWEEK

“A wild surrealistic romp . . . Brilliantly flamboyant and outrageous.”
—Joyce Carol Oates

“Sparkling, enchanting, funny, deeply serious and sometimes baffling . . . [The Master and Margarita is] a liberating, exuberant social and political satire combined with a profound moral and political allegory . . . A bravura performance of truly heroic virtuosity, a carnival of the imagination.”
—from the Introduction by Simon Franklin


From the Hardcover edition.

About the author

Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) was born and educated in Kiev where he graduated as a doctor in 1916. He rapidly abandoned medicine to write some of the greatest Russian literature of this century. He died impoverished and blind in 1940 shortly after completing his masterpiece, The Master and Margarita.