| Edition |
[First U.S. edition]. |
| Description |
vi, 394 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
"Published in the winter of 1966-67 in two issues of Moskva. About 23,000 words ... which were omitted from the Moskva version, have been restored throughout." |
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First appeared in Russian in the magazine Moskva in late 1966 and early 1967. |
| Summary |
A translation of a classic on a writer's pact with the devil in Stalinist Russia. He wants to obtain publication of a novel about the police state of Pontius Pilate which the censor has banned. |
| Contents |
BOOK ONE: Never Talk To Strangers -- Pontius Pilate -- The Seventh Proof -- The Pursuit -- The Affair at Griboyedov -- Schizophrenia -- The Haunted Apartment -- The Duel Between The Professor and The Poet -- Korovyov's Tricks -- News From Yalta -- The Two Ivans -- Black magic revealed -- Enter The Hero -- Saved by the Cockcrow -- Dream of Nikanor Ivanovich -- The Execution -- A day of anxiety -- Unwelcome Visitors -- BOOK TWO: Margarita -- Azazello's Cream -- Flight -- By Candlelight -- Satan's Rout -- The Master is Released -- How the Procurator tried to Save Judas of Kerioth -- The Burial -- The Last of Apartment No. 50 -- The final Adventures of Korovyov and Behemoth -- The Fate of the Master and Margarita Is Decided -- Time To Go -- On Sparrow Hills -- Absolution and Eternal Refuge. |
| Subject |
Devil -- Fiction.
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Authors, Russian -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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Demonology -- Soviet Union -- Fiction.
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Atheism -- Soviet Union -- Fiction.
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Moscow (Russia) -- Fiction.
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Soviet Union -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Magic realist fiction.
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| Added Title |
Master i Margarita. English
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