The Master and Margarita

Paperback | 1 October 1997 | Edition Number 1

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A literary sensation from its first publication, The Master and Margarita has become an astonishing phenomenon in Russia and has been translated into more than twenty languages, and made into plays and films.

Mikhail Bulgakov's novel is now considered one of the seminal works of twentieth-century Russian literature. In this imaginative extravaganza 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. By turns acidly satiric, fantastic and ironically philosophical, this work constantly surprises and entertains, as the action switches back and forth between the Moscow of the 1930s and first-century Jerusalem.

The commentary and afterword provide new insight into the mysterious subtexts of the novel, and here The Master and Margarita is revealed in all its complexity.

Industry Reviews

Bulgakov spent more than ten years working on this novel knowing that it could never be published (the full text was not published in Moscow until 33 years after the author's death). This is a truly subversive novel. It is a dazzling construction of three different stories, told in different tones, overlapping and intersecting each other to create a dense, sometimes bewildering, fantasy. To summarize the plot: in Judea Pontius Pilate is faced with interrogating a Jewish rabbi while in Moscow the Devil has arrived, accompanied by a large black cat who proves a poor shot with an automatic... A marvellous, magical book. (Kirkus UK)

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