At the sunset hour of one warm spring day two men were to be seen at Patriarch's Ponds.
An edition of Мастер и Маргарита
(1966)
The Master and Margarita
by Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков
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The underground masterpiece of twentieth-century Russian fiction, Mikhail Bulgakov’s THE MASTER AND MARGARITA was written during Stalin’s regime and could not be published until many years after its author’s death. When the devil arrives in 1930s Moscow, consorting with a retinue of odd associates—including a talking black cat, an assassin, and a beautiful naked witch—his antics wreak havoc among the literary elite of the world capital of atheism. Meanwhile, the Master, author of an unpublished novel about Jesus and Pontius Pilate, languishes in despair in a pyschiatric hospital, while his devoted lover, Margarita, decides to sell her soul to save him. As Bulgakov’s dazzlingly exuberant narrative weaves back and forth between Moscow and ancient Jerusalem, studded with scenes ranging from a giddy Satanic ball to the murder of Judas in Gethsemane, Margarita’s enduring love for the Master joins the strands of plot across space and time.
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satire, humor, Politicians, Good and evil, Alienation, atheism, magicians, bands, political fiction, allegories, Fiction, Literature, Fantasy, Mental illness, Classic Literature, History, Russian Political fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Moscow (russia), fiction, Fiction, humorous, Fiction, satire, Slavic philology, E guo xiao shuo, Jerusalem, fiction, Soviet union, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, humorous, general, Jerusalem, Fiction, general, Literature, history and criticism, Russian fiction, Translations into English, Devil, Fiction, political, AllegoryPeople
The Devil, Woland, Koroviev, Behemoth, Azazello, Hella, Pontius Pilate, Yeshua Ha-Notsri, Mikhail Alexandrovich Berlioz, Ivan Nikolayevich Ponyryov, the Master, Margarita, Natasha Prokofyevna, Stephan Bogdanovich Likhodeyev, Grigory Danilovich Rimsky, Ivan Savelyevich Varenukha, Nikanor Ivanovich Bosoy, Fagotto, Aphranius, Levi Matvei, Caiaphas, Judas IscariotPlaces
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Il Maestro e Margherita: All'amico segreto / Lettera al governo dell'Urss
2015, Oscar Mondadori
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in Italian
- Oscar classici. moderni 1991 Marzo (32)
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The Master and Margarita
1972, Collins and Harvill Press/Fontana Books
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The Master and Margarita (Russian: Мастер и Маргарита) is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940. The story concerns a visit by the devil and his entourage to the officially atheist Soviet Union. The devil, manifested as one Professor Woland, challenges the Soviet citizens' beliefs towards religion and condemns their behavior throughout the book. The Master and Margarita combines supernatural elements with satirical dark comedy and Christian philosophy, defying categorization within a single genre. Many critics consider it to be one of the best novels of the 20th century, as well as the foremost of Soviet satires. A censored version, with several chapters cut by editors, was published posthumously in Moscow magazine in 1966–1967 by his widow Elena Bulgakova. The manuscript was not published as a book until 1967, in Paris. A samizdat version circulated that included parts cut out by official censors, and these were incorporated in a 1969 version published in Frankfurt. The novel has since been published in several languages and editions.
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