The Master and Margarita: Mikhail Bulgakov (Macmillan Collector's Library, 208)

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

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2019
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Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much-loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
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. This edition is translated by Diana Burgin and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor.
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, The Master and Margarita constantly surprises and entertains as the action switches back and forth between the Moscow of the 1930s and first-century Jerusalem.

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Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much-loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

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. This edition is translated by Diana Burgin and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor.

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, The Master and Margarita constantly surprises and entertains as the action switches back and forth between the Moscow of the 1930s and first-century Jerusalem.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 560
Edition: Main Market
Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library
Published: 05 Sep 2019
ISBN 10: 1529012112
ISBN 13: 9781529012118

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 *
It had everything; Satan and a wise-cracking cat, Jesus as a wise simpleton, doomed love, hints of sex, blasphemy -- Jonathan Grimwood * Independent *
I read it as a book about how to go on living when your spirit is broken -- Viv Groskop * The Guardian *

Author Bio

Mikhail Bulgakov was born in 1891 in Kiev, Ukraine. He first trained in medicine but gave up his profession as a doctor to pursue writing. His first few novels were denounced for being critical of Soviet communism, and by 1930 he was ostracized from publishing. During this time he wrote many of his masterpieces including Moliere, Black Snow: A Theatrical Novel and The Master and Margarita, which was enormously censored and published in 1966-67, 25 years after Bulgakov's death.