![]() ![]() Stalin named Bulgakov the assistant director of the Moscow Arts Theater, where his actions were monitored. ![]() A medical doctor, he gave up his practice to pursue his writing. This new translation has been created from the complete and unabridged Russian texts.Īuthor Bio: Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) was described in the official Big Soviet Encyclopedia as a slanderer of Soviet reality. ![]() It was an immediate and enduring success: Audiences responded with great enthusiasm to its expression of artistic and spiritual freedom. Its central characters, Woland (Satan) and his retinue-including the vodka-drinking, black cat, Behemoth the poet, Ivan Homeless Pontius Pilate and a writer known only as The Master, and his passionate companion, Margarita-exist in a world that blends fantasy and chilling realism, an artful collage of grostesqueries, dark comedy, and timeless ethical questions.Īlthough completed in 1940, The Master and Margarita was not published in Moscow until 1966, when the first part appeared in the magazine Moskva. Combining two distinct yet interwoven parts-one set in ancient Jerusalem, one in contemporary Moscow-the novel veers from moods of wild theatricality with violent storms, vampire attacks, and a Satanic ball to such somber scenes as the meeting of Pilate and Yeshua, and the murder of Judas in the moonlit garden of Gethsemane to the substanceless, circus-like reality of Moscow. ![]() Mikhail Bulgakov's devastating satire of Soviet life was written during the darkest period of Stalin's regime. ![]()
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