El Maestro y Margarita

mikhail bulgakov

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.

Genres fictionrussiafantasyrussian literaturemagical realismliteraturenovelshistorical fictionbook club20th century

null pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1967

Literary awards

premi crítica serra dor de teatre i arts escèniques, read russia prize,

Places

moscow, russia, jerusalem,

This edition

Format: null pages, Paperback
Published: January 1, 2006 by Alianza
ISBN: 9788420666334
ASIN: 8420666335
Language: Spanish; Castilian

Characters More characters

Lucifer

Satan, The Devil....
Pontius Pilate

Pontius Pilate was the fifth prefect of the Roman province of Judaea, serving under Emperor Tiberius from AD 26 to 36. He is best known today for the trial and crucifixion of Jesus. Traditionally is married to Claudia, Claudia Procula, or Procula....
Behemot

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Master

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Margarita Nicolaevna

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Ivan Nikolayevich Ponyryov

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About the author

mikhail bulgakov

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (Russian: Михаил Булгаков) was a Russian writer, medical doctor, and playwright. His novel The Master and Margarita, published posthumously, has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.
He also wrote the novel The White Guard and the plays Ivan Vasilievich, Flight (also called The Run), and The Days of the Turbins. He wrote mostly about the horrors of the Russian Civil War and about the fate of Russian intellectuals and officers of the Tsarist Army caught up in revolution and Civil War.
Some of his works (Flight, all his works between the years 1922 and 1926, and others) were banned by the Soviet government, and personally by Joseph Stalin, after it was decided by them that they "glorified emigration and White generals". On the other hand, Stalin loved The Days of the Turbins (also called The Turbin Brothers) very much and reportedly saw it at least 15 times.