num_pages: 432
description: Suppressed in the Soviet Union for twenty-six years, Mikhail Bulgakov's masterpiece is an ironic parable on power and its corruption, on good and evil, and on human frailty and the strength of love. Featuring Satan, accompanied by a retinue that includes the large, fast-talking vodka-drinking black tom cat Behemoth, the beautiful Margarita, her beloved - a distraught writer known only as the Master - Pontius Pilate, and Jesus Christ, The Master and Margarita combines fable, fantasy, political satire, and slapstick comedy into a wildly entertaining and unforgettable tale that is commonly considered one of the greatest novels ever to come out of the Soviet Union.
language: English
title: The Master and Margarita
titlecomplete: The Master and Margarita
characters: Behemot, Master, Mikhail Alexandrovich Berlioz, Azazello, Stephan Bogdanovich Likhodeyev, Margarita Nicolaevna, Pontius Pilate, Ivan Nikolayevich Ponyryov, Hella (The Master and Margarita), Lucifer, Korovyev, Yeshua Ha-Nozri, Natasha (The Master and Margarita)
genres: Classics, Magical Realism, Fantasy, Russia, Novels, Russian Literature, Historical Fiction, Literature, 20th Century, Fiction
ratings_count: 333605
places: Moscow, Jerusalem, Russia
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Premi Crítica Serra d'Or de Teatre i arts escèniques, awardedAt: 1388563200000
name: Read Russia Prize
category: 20th-Century Russian Literature for Alexander Nitzberg
publisher: Penguin Classic