
- Publisher:
- PAN
- Year of publication:
- 2019
- ISBN:
- 978-1-5290-1211-8
- Pages:
- 496
THE MASTER AND MARGARITA
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV
A literary sensation from its first publication, The Master and Margarita is considered a masterpiece of twentieth-century Russian literature. In this imaginative extravaganza, Satan, disguised as a magician, descends upon Moscow in the 1930s with his riotous band, which includes a talking cat and an expert assassin. This visit has several aims, one of which concerns the fate of the Master, an author who has written a novel about Pontius Pilate and is now in a mental hospital. By turns satiric, fantastic and ironically philosophical, The Master and Margarita constantly surprises and entertains as the action switches back and forth between twentieth-century Moscow and first-century Jerusalem. This edition has an introduction by historian Orlando Figes"--Jacket.