{"product_id":"the-master-and-margarita-isbn-9780143108276","title":"The Master and Margarita","description":"\u003cb\u003eA 50th-anniversary Deluxe Edition of the incomparable 20th-century masterpiece of satire and fantasy, in a newly revised version of the acclaimed Pevear and Volokhonsky translation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNothing in the whole of literature compares with \u003ci\u003eThe Master and Margarita\u003c\/i\u003e. One spring afternoon, the Devil, trailing fire and chaos in his wake, weaves himself out of the shadows and into Moscow. 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 part is 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis newly revised translation, by the award-winning team of Pevear and Volokhonsky, is made from the complete and unabridged Russian text.\u003c\/i\u003e“My favorite novel—it’s just the greatest explosion of imagination, craziness, satire, humor, and heart.” —\u003cb\u003eDaniel Radcliffe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“From the first page I was immediately beguiled, leading me to my year of reading Bulgakov, drawing me to venture to Moscow to seek out the landmarks in the book, and the author’s grave, which is steps away from the grave of Gogol.” —\u003cb\u003ePatti Smith, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Nude vampires, gun-toting talking black cat, and devil as ultimate party starter aside, the miracle of this novel is that every time you read it, it’s a different book.” —\u003cb\u003eMarlon James, “My 10 Favorite Books,” in \u003ci\u003eT: The New York Times Style Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I read it first as an 18-year-old and, just like a meteor from a distant galaxy, it hit my tender young brain and dug its way deep into its gray material. It has nestled there ever since, radiating with beauty and wonder, irony and horror.” —\u003cb\u003eSjón, \u003ci\u003eVulture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “One of the truly great Russian novels of [the twentieth] century.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “By turns hilarious, mysterious, contemplative, and poignant . . . A great work.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “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.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Fine, funny, imaginative . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Master and Margarita\u003c\/i\u003e stands squarely in the great Gogolesque tradition of satiric narrative.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A wild surrealistic romp . . . Brilliantly flamboyant and outrageous.” —\u003cb\u003eJoyce Carol Oates\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Beautiful, strange, tender, scarifying, and incandescent . . . One of those novels that, even in translation, make one feel that not one word could have been written differently . . . \u003ci\u003eMargarita\u003c\/i\u003e has too many achievements to list—for one thing, a plot scudding with action and suspense, not exactly a hallmark of Russian literature. . . . This luminous translation [is] distinguished by not only the stylistic elegance that has become a hallmark of Pevear and Volokhonsky translations but also a supreme ear for the sound and meaning of Soviet life. . . . It’s time for \u003ci\u003eThe Master and Margarita\u003c\/i\u003e to rise to its rightful place in the canon of great world literature. . . . As literature, it will live forever.” —\u003cb\u003eBoris Fishman, from the Foreword\u003c\/b\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky\u003c\/b\u003e (translators) have translated works by Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, Gogol, and Pasternak. They were twice awarded the PEN\/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize, for their translations of Dostoyevsky’s \u003ci\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov\u003c\/i\u003e and Tolstoy’s \u003ci\u003eAnna Karenina\u003c\/i\u003e. Pevear, a native of Boston, and Volokhonsky, of St. Petersburg, are married and live in Paris.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. Born in Minsk, Belarus, he moved to the United States at age nine and now lives in New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher Conn Askew\u003c\/b\u003e (cover illustrator) is a painter and tattoo artist whose illustrations have appeared on the covers of books, albums, and magazines. He lives in Los Angeles.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301810360549,"sku":"NP9780143108276","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143108276.jpg?v=1767740434","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-master-and-margarita-isbn-9780143108276","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}