The Master and Margarita: Introduction by Simon Franklin (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)

Michail Bulgakov

ISBN 10: 0679410465 / ISBN 13: 9780679410461

Editore: Everyman's Library, 1992

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Riassunto:

The underground masterpiece of twentieth-century Russian fiction, Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita was written during Stalin’s regime and could not be published until many years after its author’s death.

When the devil arrives in 1930s Moscow, consorting with a retinue of odd associates—including a talking black cat, an assassin, and a beautiful naked witch—his antics wreak havoc among the literary elite of the world capital of atheism. Meanwhile, the Master, author of an unpublished novel about Jesus and Pontius Pilate, languishes in despair in a pyschiatric hospital, while his devoted lover, Margarita, decides to sell her soul to save him. As Bulgakov’s dazzlingly exuberant narrative weaves back and forth between Moscow and ancient Jerusalem, studded with scenes ranging from a giddy Satanic ball to the murder of Judas in Gethsemane, Margarita’s enduring love for the Master joins the strands of plot across space and time.

Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.

Informazioni sull?autore: 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. He died impoverished and blind in 1940 shortly after completing his masterpiece, The Master and Margarita.

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Titolo: The Master and Margarita: Introduction by ...
Casa editrice: Everyman's Library
Data di pubblicazione: 1992
Legatura: Rilegato
Condizione: good