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Original Title:	Мастер и Маргарита
ISBN:	0679760806 (ISBN13: 9780679760801)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Lucifer, Pontius Pilate, Caiaphas, Woland, Behemot, Jesus, Master, Margarita Nicolaevna, Ivan Bezdomny, Yeshua Ha-Nozri, David (King of Israel)
Setting:	Jerusalem (Judea)(Israel) Moscow(Russian Federation) Russia

The Master and Margarita Paperback | Pages: 335 pages

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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 The novel's vision of Soviet life in the 1930s is so ferociously accurate that it could not be published during its author's lifetime and appeared only in a censored edition in the 1960s.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 immense 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. (back cover)

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Title	:	The Master and Margarita
Author	:	Mikhail Bulgakov
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Vintage International Edition (US / CAN)
Pages	:	Pages: 335 pages
Published	:	March 1996 by Vintage International (first published 1967)
Categories	:	Gothic. Science Fiction. Literature. Short Stories. Classics. 19th Century. Historical. Victorian

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The Chicago Tribune wrote: The book is by turns hilarious, mysterious, contemplative and poignant, and everywhere full of rich descriptive passages.Hilarious and contemplative my ass, CT. This book is an interminable slog.Look, heres the deal. I get that this book satirizes 1930s Stalinist Russia, and I get thatfor somethis earns The Master and Margarita a place on their works-of-historical-importance shelves. But for me, it earns nothing. I mean, lets just call a spade a spade, shall we? There

I wasnt too sure what I was getting into with a book as famous and as beloved as The Master and Margarita. I had cracked it open once before, and barely made past page 10 before giving up but to be fair, my head was not in the right place for a book like that at the time. This time around, I needed to cleanse my brain of the memory of a clumsily written and disappointing read, and I just figured Bulgakov had waited on my shelf long enough, and that he would do the trick.The Master and Margarita

There was something devilish and demonic in the time itself so the devil with his demons descended unto the capital city.First of all, the man described did not limp on any leg, and was neither short nor enormous, but simply tall. As for his teeth, he had platinum crowns on the left side and gold on the right. He was wearing an expensive grey suit and imported shoes of a matching colour. His grey beret was cocked rakishly over one ear; under his arm he carried a stick with a black knob shaped

Soviet Ghost StoriesStories, stories, all is stories: political stories, religious stories, scientific stories, even stories about stories. We live inside these stories. Like this one in The Master and Margarita. The story that we can more or less agree upon we call reality. But is it real?Story-making and telling is what we do as human beings. Through stories we create meaning out of thin air, in the same way that plants create their food from light, and usually with about the same level of

Hmm......It would appear that poor old Berlioz was not the only one to lose his head, feels like mine has gone as well!, not literally though more mentally, as I can't quite make heads or tails out of what has just gone before my eyes!. While other writers of this time period put pen to paper in the darkest of ways under Stalin's reign, Mikhail Bulgakov decides to write about among other things, talking cats, naked witches, Pontius Pilate, invisible body cream, trumpet playing gorillas and

EXTRA! EXTRA! This review has now been immortalized in audio format. Authentic Russian accent and Russian quotes are provided free of charge :) http://soundcloud.com/nataliyac/the-m...--------------------I'm staying home from work today, sick to the extreme, and it's only in that unique feverish clarity that comes with illness that I dare to even try to write about this book.This is THE book. The one that all the other books are measured against. The one that I've read more times since I was

This review is dedicated to Mary, the very model of a perfect co-moderator and GR friend.Unlocking the Meaning of The Master and MargaritaMikhail BulgakovIn the decades following the publication of The Master and Margarita, myriad critics have attempted to find a key to unlock the meaning of Bulgakovs unfinished masterwork. Some viewed the novel as a political roman à clef, laboriously substituting historical figures from Stalinist Moscow for Bulgakovs characters. Others posited a religious