Mikhail Bulgakov's astonishing Russian masterpiece, which has been translated into more than twenty languages, with an introduction by Orlando Figes.
Mikhail Bulgakov was born in 1891 in Kiev, in present-day Ukraine. He first trained in medicine but gave up his profession as a doctor to pursue writing. He started working on The Master and Margarita in 1928 but due to censorship it was not published until 1966, more than twenty-five years after Bulgakov's death.
Funny and frightening
*London Review of Books*
Incandescent . . . One of those novels that, even in translation,
make you feel that not one word could have been written differently
. . . It has too many achievements to list, but the way it keeps
faith in love and art even in moments of unspeakable humiliation
and cruelty must be the greatest
*New York Times*
It had everything: Satan and a wise-cracking cat, Jesus as a wise
simpleton, doomed love, hints of sex, blasphemy
*Independent*
I read it as a book about how to go on living when your spirit is
broken
*Guardian*
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