The Master and Margarita (Vintage Classic Russians Series)

Mikhail Bulgakov

Mar 2010 · Random House

About this ebook

'A masterpiece - a classic of twentieth-century fiction' New York Times

Bulgakov paints a powerful picture of Stalin's regime in this allegorical classic.

The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow accompanied by various demons, including a naked girl and a huge 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.

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Ratings and reviews

Every one else seems to love this, I just couldn't get into it, one random bizarre after another; completely disjointed.

Read this book at least once in your lifetime. Not like any other classic I've ever read before. Mikhail spaciba :)

A magical realism novel with a lot of Russian names that are hard to remember. There are too many characters and any good ideas are lost in the confusion.

About the author

Mikhail Bulgakov (1891 - 1940) was born and educated in Kiev where he graduated as a doctor in 1916. He rapidly abandoned medicine to write some of the greatest Russian literature of this century. After a lifetime at odds with the stultifying Soviet regime, he died impoverished and blind in 1940, shortly after completing his masterpiece, The Master and Margarita. None of his major fiction was published during his lifetime.