By Mikhail Bulgakov (Author), Will Self (Introduction By)
Format: Paperback / softback 464 pages
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Imprint: Vintage Classics
ISBN: 9780099540946
Published: 7 Jan 2010
Classifications: fiction (pre c 1945), Fiction in translation
Weight: 324g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 30 (mm)Russia's literary world is shaken to its foundations
Russia's literary world is shaken to its foundations when a mysterious gentleman, a professor of black magic, arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a bizarre retinue of servants. It soon becomes clear that he is the Devil himself, come to wreak havoc among the cultural elite of a disbelieving capital. But the Devil's mission quickly becomes entangled with the fate of the Master - a man who has turned his back on his former life and taken refuge in a lunatic asylum - and his past lover, Margarita.
Both a satirical romp and a daring analysis of the nature of good and evil, innocence and guilt, The Master and Margarita is the crowning achievement of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.