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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 the English-speaking audience may fully enjoy Bulgakov’s masterpiece.
Includes annotations and commentary.
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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, politicalPeople
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Russia, Soviet Union, Jerusalem, Moscow, Patriarch's Ponds, Griboyedov's houseShowing 11 featured editions. View all 229 editions?
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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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"Once upon an unusually hot hour of sunset in spring, two gentlemen appeared at Patriarch's Ponds in Moscow."
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The battle of competing translations, a new publishing phenomenon which began with One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, now offers two rival American editions of Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita. Mirra Ginsburg's (Grove Press) version is pointedly grotesque: she delights in the sharp, spinning, impressionistic phrase. Her Bulgakov reminds one of the virtuoso effects encountered in Zamyatin and Babel, as yell as the early Pasternak's bizarre tale of Heine in Italy. Translator Michael Glenny, on the other hand, almost suggests Tolstoy. His (Harper & Row) version is simpler, softer, and more humane. The Bulgakov fantasy is less striking here, but less strident, too. Glenny: ""There was an oddness about that terrible day...It was the hour of the day when people feel too exhausted to breathe, when Moscow glows in a dry haze..."" Ginsburg: ""Oh, yes, we must take note of the first strange thing...At that hour, when it no longer seemed possible to breathe, when the sun was tumbling in a dry haze..."" In any case, The Master and Margarita, a product of intense labor from 1928 till Bulgakov's death in 1940, is a distinctive and fascinating work, undoubtedly a stylistic landmark in Soviet literature, both for its aesthetic subversion of ""socialist realism"" (like Zamyatin, Bulgakov apparently believed that true literature is created by visionaries and skeptics and madmen), and for the purity of its imagination. Essentially the anti-scientific, vaguely anti-Stalinist tale presents a resurrected Christ figure, a demonic, tricksy foreign professor, and a Party poet, the bewildered Ivan Homeless, plus a bevy of odd or romantic types, all engaged in socio-political exposures, historical debates, and supernatural turnabouts. A humorous, astonishing parable on power, duplicity, freedom, and love.
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- Мастер и Маргарита (ru.wikipedia.org)
- The Master and Margarita - Wikipedia
- The Master and Margarita showed me just how easy it is to mess up a nation | Viv Groskop | Opinion | The Guardian
- Book of a lifetime: The Master and Margarita, By Mikhail Bulgakov | The Independent
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