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An edition of Мастер и Маргарита (1966)

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An edition of Мастер и Маргарита (1966)

The Master and Margarita

  • 4.21 ·
  • 53 Ratings
  • 289 Want to read
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  • 69 Have read
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BCA
Language
English
Pages
445

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The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow accompanied by two demons, a naked girl and a huge black cat. When he leaves, the asylums are full and the forces of law and order in disarray. Only the Master, a man devoted to truth, and Margarita, the woman he loves, remain undiminished.

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Edition Availability
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Master and Margarita
2019, Macmillan Collector's Library
Hardcover in English
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Master and Margarita
2018, Alma Classics
Paperback in English - Revised edition
Cover of: The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita
2016, Penguin Books
Paperback in English - Pocket Penguin edition (007)
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Il maestro e Margherita
2016-03, Feltrinelli
paperback in Italian - Settima ed.
Cover of: Мастер и Маргарита
Мастер и Маргарита
2015, AST
Paperback in Russian
Cover of: Mistrz i Małgorzata
Mistrz i Małgorzata
2012, Dom Wydawniczy "Rebis"
Paperback in Polish
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Мастер и Маргарита: 大師與瑪格麗特
2009-04, Jiu jing chu ban, Kou ying gong si jing xiao
Paperback in Chinese - 880-03 Chu ban.
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Der Meister und Margarita
2006-09, Sammlung Luchterhand
Paperback in German - 2. Auflage
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The Master and Margarita
2003, BCA
Paperback in English
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Мастер и Маргарита: roman
1994, "Sibirskai͡a kniga"
Hardcover in Russian

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Edition Notes

Copyright Date
1967

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Format
Paperback
Pagination
445p.
Number of pages
445

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL38586486M
Internet Archive
mastermargarita0000unse_o6a7
OCLC/WorldCat
952989577
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61419249

Work Description

The battle of competing translations, a new publishing phenomenon which began with One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, now offers two rival American editions of Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita. Mirra Ginsburg's (Grove Press) version is pointedly grotesque: she delights in the sharp, spinning, impressionistic phrase. Her Bulgakov reminds one of the virtuoso effects encountered in Zamyatin and Babel, as yell as the early Pasternak's bizarre tale of Heine in Italy. Translator Michael Glenny, on the other hand, almost suggests Tolstoy. His (Harper & Row) version is simpler, softer, and more humane. The Bulgakov fantasy is less striking here, but less strident, too. Glenny: ""There was an oddness about that terrible day...It was the hour of the day when people feel too exhausted to breathe, when Moscow glows in a dry haze..."" Ginsburg: ""Oh, yes, we must take note of the first strange thing...At that hour, when it no longer seemed possible to breathe, when the sun was tumbling in a dry haze..."" In any case, The Master and Margarita, a product of intense labor from 1928 till Bulgakov's death in 1940, is a distinctive and fascinating work, undoubtedly a stylistic landmark in Soviet literature, both for its aesthetic subversion of ""socialist realism"" (like Zamyatin, Bulgakov apparently believed that true literature is created by visionaries and skeptics and madmen), and for the purity of its imagination. Essentially the anti-scientific, vaguely anti-Stalinist tale presents a resurrected Christ figure, a demonic, tricksy foreign professor, and a Party poet, the bewildered Ivan Homeless, plus a bevy of odd or romantic types, all engaged in socio-political exposures, historical debates, and supernatural turnabouts. A humorous, astonishing parable on power, duplicity, freedom, and love.

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At the sunset hour of one warm spring day two men were to be seen at Patriarch's Ponds.
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