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The Master and Margarita

The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov (Estate)
Pub date 1st December 1967
Publisher (UK) Penguin Classics; Vintage Classics; Picador; Alma Books
Publisher (US) Penguin Classics; Grove Atlantic
International publishers Antares (Armenia), Robert Laffont (France), Mir Nom Publishing (Mongolia), Wydawnictwa Szkolne i Pedagogiczne (Poland), Penguin Random House (Spain)    

 

 

Moscow, 1929: a city that has lost its way amid corruption and fear, inhabited by people who have abandoned their morals and forsaken spirituality. But when a mysterious stranger arrives in town with a bizarre entourage that includes a giant talking cat and a fanged assassin, all hell breaks loose. Among those caught up in the strange and inexplicable events that transpire in the capital are the Master, a writer whose life has been destroyed by Soviet repression, and his beloved Margarita. Their adventures reveal a story that began two thousand years ago in ancient Jerusalem – and its resolution will decide their fate.

Considered one of the finest creations of Russian literature in the 20th century, The Master and Margarita is an amazing work of fantasy, a love story, a biting satire on Soviet life, and a lot more. Mikhail Bulgakov’s last book and crowning achievement, it has been written in secrecy, burned and restored, and banned for decades. Its author, who worked on it until his final days, never saw it in print. This new translation faithfully reproduces the style and idiomatic flow of the text, so that English-speaking audiences may fully enjoy Bulgakov’s masterpiece.

Praise for The Master & Margarita

‘A wild surrealistic romp … Brilliantly flamboyant and outrageous.’ – Joyce Carol Oates

‘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.’ – The New York Times

‘One of the greatest modern Russian novels.’ – The Independent

‘What I find most extraordinary about The Master and Margarita is its scale, its daring, its sheer imaginative reach. Part satire, part love story, part mystical experience, it refuses to be pigeonholed. It’s a book that makes other books look safe.’ – Rupert Thomson

‘A gloriously ironic gothic masterpiece.’ – Patrick McGrath

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