The Master and Margarita (Picador Classic, 63)

The Master and Margarita (Picador Classic, 63)

by Mikhail Bulgakov (Author), Diana Burgin (Translator), Mikhail Bulgakov (Author), Diana Burgin (Translator), Orlando Figes (Introduction), Katherine Tiernan O’Connor (Translator)

Synopsis

A literary sensation from its first publication, The Master and Margarita has become an astonishing phenomenon in Russia and has been translated into more than twenty languages, and made into plays and films. Mikhail Bulgakov's novel is now considered one of the seminal works of twentieth-century Russian literature.

In this imaginative extravaganza the Devil, disguised as a magician, descends upon Moscow in the 1930s with his riotous band, which includes a talking cat and an expert assassin. Together they succeed in comically befuddling a population which denies the Devil's existence, even as it is confronted with the diabolic results of a magic act gone wrong. This visit to the world capital of atheism has several aims, one of which concerns the fate of the Master, a writer who has written a novel about Pontius Pilate, and is now in a mental hospital.

By turns acidly satiric, fantastic and ironically philosophical, this work constantly surprises and entertains, as the action switches back and forth between the Moscow of the 1930s and first-century Jerusalem. The commentary and afterword provide new insight into the mysterious subtexts of the novel, and here The Master and Margarita is revealed in all its complexity.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Edition: Main Market
Publisher: Picador
Published: 07 Mar 2019

ISBN 10: 1509823298
ISBN 13: 9781509823291

Media Reviews
Funny and frightening * London Review of Books *
Incandescent . . . one of those novels that, even in translation, make you feel that not one word could have been written differently . . . it has too many achievements to list, but the way it keeps faith in love and art even in moments of unspeakable humiliation and cruelty must be the greatest * New York Times *
Author Bio
Mikhail Bulgakov was a novelist and playwright. His best known work, The Master and Margarita, has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.