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by Mikhail Bulgakov (Author), Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator) "Once upon an unusually hot hour of sunset in spring, two gentlemen appeared at Patriarch's Ponds in Moscow ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (28 Sep 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 014118373X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141183732
  • Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 11.7 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (92 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 456,999 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Daily Telegraph, August 2, 2004

The Master and Margarita comes over like a grown-up and vastly superior version of Harry Potter. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Daily Telegraph, August 2, 2004

Outstanding adaptation...breathtaking in its ambition and originality...the literary range is extraordinary --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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52 of 54 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars I would give this 6 stars but I was not allowed., 4 Sep 2000
By S. J. Dillon (Liverpool) - See all my reviews
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There is little that I could write to do sufficient justice to such an inspired flight of the imaginaltion. The dual settings in the novel of the fantastical last few days in the life of Jesus Christ compared to the chaos of a timeless Moscow held in thrall by the Devil in the guise of a cheap stage magican. The plots are so diverse and the characters are totally compelling (amongst them is Behemoth a cigarette smoking, gun toting, 5ft Black cat!) I have never read anything so darkly compelling yet wickedly funny that works on so many levels. I have read this book at least once a year for the last 6 years and I think I will continue to do so until I have picked it clean, and that will take me good while yet. Bulgakov is the true Master.
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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Terror, secrets, foreigners, jesus, death and manuscripts, 2 Aug 2001
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Stalin's hierarchical, monolithic political structures of the 1930's intensified the struggle against "enemies of the people" by arresting and executing over 15 million Russians, amongst them managers, intelligentsia and writers. The Secret Police orchestrated State terror by raiding the houses of intellectuals at night if they were suspected of satirising the Soviet state. Bulgakov himself slept with a suitcase full of warm clothes beneath his bed, should the knock at the door at dawn be the KGB. If caught with the manuscript of The Master and Margarita, he would have been sent without trial to the prison camps of Siberia, where he would have been worked through exhaustion into death.

An appreciation of the harsh ideological backdrop to this vital and extraordinary novel makes its vision all the more astonishing. Bulgakov examines with a breathtaking wit such subversive issues as institutionalised atheism, Satan's sypmpathetic aspect, the similarities between the political and social systems of Pontius Pilate's Jerusalem and Stalin's Moscow, the arbitrariness of justice, the redemptive power of love (in this case adulterous), and the human effort towards regeneration through compassion and truth. In his generous yet clearly defined system of justice cowards are humiliated, guilty as they are of the worst sin, and the fearless are rewarded with a thin beam of moonlight, to freedom and salvation.

The Master and Magarita is as great a text as any I have ever read; Bulgakov's prodigious verbal gift is equal to Joyce or even Shakespeare, and as such deserves a special, exalted place at the pinnacle of World literature.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars the ultimate masterpiece, 13 Oct 2004
By Hallveig Runarsdottir "chick lit lover" (Reykjavik, Iceland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Master and Margarita (Vintage Classics) (Paperback)
If I was to name one book as my favorite of all times this has got to be it. It is hugely entertaining, incredibly moving and a multi-layered description of the burocratic hell that is Moscow in the early 20th century. Needless to say the book is a classic, there will ALWAYS be burocratic hells around.

It is quite brilliant to have satan come to save the world, to make bad things happen to bad people and to save the last remaining good souls from destruction.

But the real beauty of the book is the wonderful book within the book, the master's masterpiece, the story of Pontius Pilate. I often read these chapters by themselves for it is a wonderfully written story of Christ and his tormentor.

Anyway, if you haven't read it, please do. if you enjoy good literature you will not be disappointed.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful book but choose your translation carefully
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I love Master and Margarita book and wanted to have comic book but couldnt find it anywhere but on Amazon website. I m glad you had it.
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