The release date for the English version of 'The Master and Margarita' by
Mikhail Bulgakov is Mar 1996. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
The hilarious masterwork by Mikhail Bulgakov, translated into English for the first time and with annotations.
The Master and Margarita, a bold retelling of the tales of Faust and Pontius Pilate, is regarded as one of the key works of contemporary Russian literature. Because the novel's depiction of Soviet life in the 1930s is so brutally true, it was only released in a sanitized form in the 1960s after the author was killed. Its language has permeated Russian discourse because of how timeless its truths are.
One hot spring, the devil arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and an immense talking black cat with a fondness for chess and vodka. The guests soon cause chaos in a city that rejects the existence of both God and Satan. However, they also provide solace to two miserable Muscovites: Margarita, who is really eager to go to hell for the Master, and the Master, a writer who was ridiculed for daring to write a book about Christ and Pontius Pilate. What follows is a work of profound intellectual depth, wit, and boundless energy, the intricacies of which are revealed for the first time in the excellent English translation by Diana Burgin and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor.