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Mikhail Bulgakov |
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Wood, Michael, London Review of Books: "[F]unny and frightening....Bulgakov...was writing it, without any hope or thought of publication, in a time and place where arbitrary arrests and disappearances were a common occurrence, and yet where people managed to devise for themselves...a fable of normality. Bulgakov confronts this fable with a further fable..." |
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Inc (March 01, 1996)
Measurements: 8.25"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 1"(d), 0.7 lbs.
ISBN: 9780679760801 |
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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 capital of world 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. 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. |
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