Мастер и Маргарита - Mikhail Bulgakov
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Мастер и Маргарита

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Language
Russian
Published in
Publisher
Изд-во Азбука
Pages
412
ISBN
9785768403171
The Devil has come to Moscow. Arriving in the atheistic Soviet capital with a bizarre entourage that includes a giant, gunslinging black cat and a fanged assassin, the mysterious Professor Woland unleashes a series of inexplicable and chaotic events that expose the greed and hypocrisy of the city's elite. As citizens disappear and surreal spectacles unfold, the lives of two lovers are drawn into the supernatural vortex. One is a brilliant, tormented writer known only as the Master, driven to despair in a psychiatric hospital after his novel about Pontius Pilate was condemned. The other is Margarita, his fiercely devoted lover, who is willing to make any sacrifice and bargain with any power to save him.

Interwoven with the pandemonium in Moscow is the Master's own forbidden manuscript, a retelling of Pontius Pilate's fateful encounter with a wandering philosopher named Yeshua Ha-Nozri. This ancient story of cowardice and conscience echoes across the centuries, merging with the modern tale of love and artistic oppression. The result is a novel that blends political satire, historical fiction, and supernatural fantasy to explore the enduring questions of good and evil, guilt and redemption, and the power of love to defy even the darkest forces. It is a story about the fight for truth in a world built on lies.

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Original edition details

Master and Margarita Originally published in 1967
Original language
English
Original publisher Harper & Row

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