num_pages: 402
description: Suppressed in Russia for 26 years, here is Mikhail Bulgakov's novel in which he combines fable, satanic fantasy, political satire and slapstick comedy to create an ironic parable on power and its corruption, on good and evil, human frailty and strength of love.
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: 333774
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: Picador Books