num_pages: 446
description: The devil with his retinue, a poet incarcerated in a mental institution for speaking the truth, and a startling re-creation of the story of Pontius Pilate, constitute the elements out of which Mikhail Bulgakov wove The Master and Margarita, the unofficial masterpiece of twentieth-century Soviet fiction. Long suppressed in its native land, this account of strange doings in Moscow in the 1930s provides us with the essence of the sceptical, trenchant, unadulterated voice of dissent
language: English
title: The Master and Margarita
titlecomplete: The Master and Margarita
characters: Mikhail Alexandrovich Berlioz, Stephan Bogdanovich Likhodeyev, Pontius Pilate, Behemot, Azazello, Ivan Nikolayevich Ponyryov, Margarita Nicolaevna, Lucifer, Yeshua Ha-Nozri, Hella (The Master and Margarita), Master, Natasha (The Master and Margarita), Korovyev
genres: Fiction, Magical Realism, Literature, Classics, Novels, Russian Literature, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Russia, 20th Century
ratings_count: 333700
places: Moscow, Russia, Jerusalem
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: Everyman's Library