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Mikhail Bulgakov (Author)
Mikhail Bulgakov was born in Kiev in May 1891. His sympathetic
portrayal of White characters in his stories, in the plays The Days
of the Turbins (The White Guard), which enjoyed great success at
the Moscow Arts Theatre in 1926, and Flight (1927), and his
satirical treatment of the officials of the New Economic Plan, led
to growing criticism, which became violent after the play The
Purple Island. He also wrote a brilliant biography of his literary
hero, Jean-Baptiste Moli re, but The Master and Margarita is
generally considered his masterpiece. Fame, at home and abroad, was
not to come until a quarter of a century after his death at Moscow
in 1940.
Richard Pevear (Translator)
Richard Pevear, along with his wife Larissa Volokhonsky, has
translated works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Gogol, Bulgakov
and Pasternak. They both were twice awarded the
PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize (for Dostoevsky's The
Brothers Karamazov and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina). They are married
and live in France.
Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
Larissa Volokhonsky, along with her husband Richard Pevear, has
translated works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Gogol, Bulgakov
and Pasternak. They both were twice awarded the
PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize (for Dostoevsky's The
Brothers Karamazov and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina). They are married
and live in France.
“One of the truly great Russian novels of [the twentieth] century.” —NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW“The book is by turns hilarious, mysterious, contemplative, and poignant . . . A great work.”—CHICAGO TRIBUNE“Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita is a soaring, dazzling novel; an extraordinary fusion of wildly disparate elements. It is a concerto played simultaneously on the organ, the bagpipes, and a pennywhistle, while someone sets off fireworks between the players’ feet.”—NEW YORK TIMES“Fine, funny, imaginative . . . The Master and Margarita stands squarely in the great Gogolesque tradition of satiric narrative.”—NEWSWEEK “A wild surrealistic romp . . . Brilliantly flamboyant and outrageous.”—Joyce Carol Oates“Sparkling, enchanting, funny, deeply serious and sometimes baffling . . . [The Master and Margarita is] a liberating, exuberant social and political satire combined with a profound moral and political allegory . . . A bravura performance of truly heroic virtuosity, a carnival of the imagination.” —from the Introduction by Simon Franklin
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