At the sunset hour of one warm spring day two men were to be seen at Patriarch's Ponds.
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The Master and Margarita
1st Vintage International ed. (2)
by Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков
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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 the novel's vision of Soviet life in the 1930s is so ferociously accurate that it could not be published during its author's lifetime and appeared only in a censored edition in the 1960s.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 immens 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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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
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Russia, Soviet Union, Jerusalem, Moscow, Patriarch's Ponds, Griboyedov's houseShowing 11 featured editions. View all 234 editions?
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Il Maestro e Margherita: All'amico segreto / Lettera al governo dell'Urss
2015, Oscar Mondadori
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Reprint. Originally published: Dana Point, Calif. : Ardis, 1995.
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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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