The Master and Margarita
By: Mikhail Bulgakov ; translated from the Russian by Michael Glenny
Edition: First Meridian Classic Printing (3)
Series: A Meridian Classic
Publisher: New American Library
Published: 1985-01
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Translated from: rus
Translation of: Мастер и Маргарита
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780452008991
Copyright date: 1967
Work titles: Master i Margarita
Description: THE TIME IS 1920
THE PLACE IS MOSCOW
The Devil appears with a retinue including a naked girl vampire with red hair and phosphorescent eyes, and a black cat that smokes cigars and is a dead shot with a Browning automatic. but Satan is only one member of a cast of characters that reenacts the Faust myth in a modern idiom.

Here Faust is seen as a Russian novelist of genius who is packed off to a lunatic asylum for having retold the Passion in a way that is unacceptable to the Soviet authorities. And the Devil is a combination of tempter, sorcerer, and soothsayer - a figure who brings chaos, insanity, and death to the streets of Moscow.

--back cover
Notes: First appeared in Russian in the magazine Moskva in late 1966 and early 1967.