The Master and Margarita (Vintage Classic Russians Series): Mikhail Bulgakov - Softcover

Bulgakov, Mikhail

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784871931 ISBN 13: 9781784871932

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2017

Synopsis

An extraordinary book in the original translation.

50th Anniversary Edition

Afterwards, when it was frankly too late, descriptions were issued of the man: expensive grey suit, grey beret, one green eye and the other black. He arrives in Moscow one hot summer afternoon with various alarming accomplices, including a demonic, fast-talking black cat. When he leaves, the asylums are full and the forces of law and order are in disarray. Only the Master, a man devoted to truth, and Margarita, the woman he loves, can resist the devil’s onslaught. Brilliant and blackly comic, The Master and Margarita was repressed by Stalin’s authorities and only published after the author’s death.

The Vintage Classic Russians Series: Published for the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Russian Revolution, these are must-have, beautifully designed editions of six epic masterpieces that have survived controversy, censorship and suppression to influence decades of thought and artistic expression.

About this title

Review:

"This book is absorbing, brilliant slapstick, and looks deep in to the heart of fantasy and longing" (Sunday Times)

"Stunning, superb...Bulgakov is one of the greatest Russian writers, perhaps the greatest" (Independent)

"A masterpiece - a classic of twentieth-century fiction" (New York Times)

From the Publisher:

New translation and commentary of Russian classic
A literary sensation from its original publication, this is a fully annotated translation of the most complete text of The Master and Margarita. Bulgakov's novel is now considered one of the seminal works of twentieth-century Russian literature.In this imaginative extravanganza the Devil, disguised as a magician, descends upon Moscow in the 1930s with his riotous band, which includes a talking cat and an expert assassin. Together they succeed in comically befuddling a population which denies the Devil's existence, even as it is confronted with the diabolic results of a magic act gone wrong. This visit to the world capital of atheism has several aims, one of which concerns the fate of the Master, a writer who has written a novel about Pontius Pilate, and is now in a mental hospital. Margarita, the despairing and daring heroine, becomes a witch in an effort to save the Master, and agrees to become the Devil's hostess at his annual spring ball. "The Master and Margarita has at last been translated accurately and completely...the book is by turns hilarious, mysterious, contemplative and poignant...a great work" Chicago Tribune

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1784871931
• ISBN 13: 9781784871932
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384