{"title":"Bulgakov, Mikhail","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-master-and-margarita-mikhail-bulgakov-hardcover","title":"The Master and Margarita -- Mikhail Bulgakov, Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis edition (Classic Wisdom Reprint) is non-censored, based on a samizdat version and translated in Russia by an unknown translator. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWidely held as one of the best novels of the 20th century the book depicts a story in a story, a manuscript of a Biblical story that the Master cannot publish and locked up in the asylum for. \u003cbr\u003e The story concerns a visit by the devil to the officially atheistic Soviet Union. The Master and Margarita combine supernatural elements with satirical dark comedy and Christian philosophy, defying a singular genre. \u003cbr\u003e Literary critic, assistant professor at the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts Nadezhda Dozhdikova notes that the image of Jesus as a harmless madman presented in ″Master and Margarita″ has its source in the literature of the USSR of the 1920s, which, following the tradition of the demythologization of Jesus in the works Strauss, Renan, Nietzsche, and Binet-Sangl , put forward two main themes - mental illness and deception. The mythological option, namely the denial of the existence of Jesus, only prevailed in the Soviet propaganda at the turn of the 1920s and 1930s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mikhail Bulgakov\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Classic Wisdom Reprint\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/09\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 444\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.13d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781950330430\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bulgakov, Mikhail","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44325260722404,"sku":"9781950330430","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9781950330430.jpg?v=1719545093"},{"product_id":"the-master-and-margarita-mikhail-bulgakov-paperback","title":"The Master and Margarita -- Mikhail Bulgakov, Paperback","description":"\u003cb\u003eA masterful translation of one of the great novels of the 20th century\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNothing in the whole of literature compares with \u003ci\u003eThe Master and Margarita\u003c\/i\u003e. Full of pungency and wit, this luminous work is Bulgakov's crowning achievement, skilfully blending magical and realistic elements, grotesque situations and major ethical concerns. Written during the darkest period of Stalin's repressive reign and a devastating satire of Soviet life, it combines two distinct yet interwoven parts, one set in contemporary Moscow, the other in ancient Jerusalem, each brimming with incident and with historical, imaginary, frightful and wonderful characters. Although completed in 1940, \u003ci\u003eThe Master and Margarita\u003c\/i\u003e was not published until 1966 when the first section appeared in the monthly magazine \u003ci\u003eMoskva\u003c\/i\u003e. Russians everywhere responded enthusiastically to the novel's artistic and spiritual freedom and it was an immediate and enduring success. This new translation has been made from the complete and unabridged Russian text.\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mikhail Bulgakov\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.77h x 5.02w x 0.79d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780141180144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAge Range:\u003c\/b\u003e 18-UP\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/11\/2009 pg. 37\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMikhail Bulgakov\u003c\/b\u003e (1891-1940) was a doctor, a novelist, a playwright, a short-story writer, and the assistant director of the Moscow Arts Theater. His body of work includes \u003ci\u003eThe White Guard\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Fatal Eggs\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHeart of a Dog\u003c\/i\u003e, and his masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eThe Master and Margarita\u003c\/i\u003e, published more than twenty-five years after his death and cited as an inspiration for Salman Rushdie's \u003ci\u003eThe Satanic Verses\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Pevear\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eLarissa Volokhonsky\u003c\/b\u003e have produced acclaimed translations of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol, and Bulgakov. Their translation of \u003ci\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov\u003c\/i\u003e won the 1991 PEN\/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize. 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Mikhail Bulgakov's fantastical, funny, and devastating satire of Soviet life combines two distinct yet interwoven parts, one set in contemporary Moscow, the other in ancient Jerusalem, each brimming with historical, imaginary, frightful, and wonderful characters. Written during the darkest days of Stalin's reign, and finally published in 1966 and 1967, \u003ci\u003eThe Master and Margarita\u003c\/i\u003e became a literary phenomenon, signaling artistic and spiritual freedom for Russians everywhere. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This newly revised translation, by the award-winning team of Pevear and Volokhonsky, is made from the complete and unabridged Russian text. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. 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Pevear, a native of Boston, and Volokhonsky, of St. Petersburg, are married and live in Paris. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBoris Fishman\u003c\/b\u003e (foreword) is the author of two novels, \u003ci\u003eA Replacement Life\u003c\/i\u003e, which was one of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e' 100 Notable Books of 2014 and won the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award and the American Library Association's Sophie Brody Medal, and \u003ci\u003eDon't Let My Baby Do Rodeo.\u003c\/i\u003e His journalism, essays, and criticism have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications. Fishman has taught at Princeton University and New York University. 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