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| Original Title: | Мастер и Маргарита |
| ISBN: | 0679760806 (ISBN13: 9780679760801) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Lucifer, Pontius Pilate, Caiaphas, Woland, Behemot, Jesus, Master, Margarita Nicolaevna, Ivan Bezdomny, Yeshua Ha-Nozri, David (King of Israel) |
| Setting: | Jerusalem (Judea)(Israel) Moscow(Russian Federation) Russia |
Mikhail Bulgakov
Paperback | Pages: 335 pages Rating: 4.3 | 221656 Users | 10386 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Master and Margarita |
| Author | : | Mikhail Bulgakov |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Vintage International Edition (US / CAN) |
| Pages | : | Pages: 335 pages |
| Published | : | March 1996 by Vintage International (first published 1967) |
| Categories | : | Gothic. Science Fiction. Literature. Short Stories. Classics. 19th Century. Historical. Victorian |
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The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece.An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and Pontius Pilate, The Master and Margarita is recognized as one of the essential classics of modern Russian literature. The novel's vision of Soviet life in the 1930s is so ferociously accurate that it could not be published during its author's lifetime and appeared only in a censored edition in the 1960s. Its truths are so enduring that its language has become part of the common Russian speech.
One hot spring, the devil arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and an immense talking black cat with a fondness for chess and vodka. The visitors quickly wreak havoc in a city that refuses to believe in either God or Satan. But they also bring peace to two unhappy Muscovites: one is the Master, a writer pilloried for daring to write a novel about Christ and Pontius Pilate; the other is Margarita, who loves the Master so deeply that she is willing literally to go to hell for him. What ensues is a novel of in exhaustible energy, humor, and philosophical depth, a work whose nuances emerge for the first time in Diana Burgin's and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor's splendid English version.
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I wasnt too sure what I was getting into with a book as famous and as beloved as The Master and Margarita. I had cracked it open once before, and barely made past page 10 before giving up but to be fair, my head was not in the right place for a book like that at the time. This time around, I needed to cleanse my brain of the memory of a clumsily written and disappointing read, and I just figured Bulgakov had waited on my shelf long enough, and that he would do the trick.The Master and MargaritaThis review is dedicated to Mary, the very model of a perfect co-moderator and GR friend.Unlocking the Meaning of The Master and MargaritaMikhail BulgakovIn the decades following the publication of The Master and Margarita, myriad critics have attempted to find a key to unlock the meaning of Bulgakovs unfinished masterwork. Some viewed the novel as a political roman à clef, laboriously substituting historical figures from Stalinist Moscow for Bulgakovs characters. Others posited a religious
I knew that this was going to be a book that I loved the moment I learned that Satan was the main character. This is not due to any particular affinity for devil worship on my part, but because I love Tricksters in literature and in Western civilization you don't get a better trickster than the devil. Watching him turn Stalinist Moscow on its head proved to be one of the most amusing and engrossing things I've read all year.From the moment he first materializes as the black magician Woland at a
More or less a novel, this book is also an allegory. Like Moby Dick, there are probably a dozen interpretations that can be given to it. The extensive local color comes from Moscow in the early Twentieth Century. (The author wrote and revised it from 1929 to 1940). The main plot centers around a crowd of Russian literati - authors, theater goers and hangers-on, particularly one older world-weary author (the Master) and his beautiful young girlfriend (Margarita). The devil and his sidekicks come
Hmm......It would appear that poor old Berlioz was not the only one to lose his head, feels like mine has gone as well!, not literally though more mentally, as I can't quite make heads or tails out of what has just gone before my eyes!. While other writers of this time period put pen to paper in the darkest of ways under Stalin's reign, Mikhail Bulgakov decides to write about among other things, talking cats, naked witches, Pontius Pilate, invisible body cream, trumpet playing gorillas and
Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once. As lightning strikes, as a Finnish knife strikes! She, by the way, insisted afterwards that it wasnt so, that we had, of course, loved each other for a long, long time, without knowing each other, never having seen each other I experienced this magical novel as an unrivalled ode to love and reveled in its delectable burlesque and hilarious scenes. It knocked me off my feet and pointed
There once was a book praised as boffThat caused others to pan it and scoffSo who wrote this thingWhence sentiments swing?Twas a Russian they called Bulgakov. The culture was smothered by StalinHe purged those he felt failed to fall in.So how to respondSans magical wand?With satire, to show its appallin.The book has been said to have layersWith multiple plotlines and players.Theres good and theres badAnd witches unclad.Can naked truth sate the naysayers?The Devils own minions had power.Blind
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