the master and margarita by mikhail bulgakov

By turns satiric, fantastic and ironically philosophical, The Master and Margarita constantly surprises and entertains as the action switches back and forth between twentieth-century Moscow and first-century Jerusalem. This visit has several aims, one of which concerns the fate of the Master, an author who has written a novel about Pontius Pilate and is now in a mental hospital. Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita has received a lot of scholarly and critical attention, researching the origins of its various mystifications, allusions and intertextualities with religious and mythological texts. In Mikhail Bulgakov's imaginative extravaganza, Satan, disguised as a magician, descends upon Moscow in the 1930s with his riotous band, which includes a talking cat and an expert assassin. This edition is translated by Diana Burgin and Katherine Tiernan O’Connor, and features an introduction by Orlando Figes. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 319,102 ratings, 4. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. Only the Master, a man devoted to truth, and Margarita, the woman he loves, can resist the devils onslaught.

A literary sensation from its first publication, The Master and Margarita is considered a masterpiece of twentieth-century Russian literature. Bulgakov began writing Master and Margaritain 1928, and the novel still shows some traces of its earliest drafts (for example, Pilates dog Banga bears the nickname of Bulgakovs second wife, Liubov or Liubanga).

The master and margarita by mikhail bulgakov