Master and Margarita - BookWyrm Underscore

Hardcover, 496 pages

English language

Published Sept. 12, 2019 by Pan Macmillan.

ISBN:: 978-1-5290-1211-8
OCLC Number:: 1132203246

A literary sensation from its first publication, The Master and Margarita is considered a masterpiece of twentieth-century Russian literature.

Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is translated by Diana Burgin and Katherine Tiernan O’Connor, and features an introduction by Orlando Figes.

In Mikhail Bulgakov's imaginative extravaganza, Satan, disguised as a magician, descends upon Moscow in the 1930s with his riotous band, which includes a talking cat and an expert assassin. This visit has several aims, one of which concerns the fate of the Master, an author who has written a novel about Pontius Pilate and is now in a mental hospital. By turns satiric, fantastic and ironically philosophical, The Master and Margarita constantly surprises and entertains as the action switches …

A literary sensation from its first publication, The Master and Margarita is considered a masterpiece of twentieth-century Russian literature.

Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is translated by Diana Burgin and Katherine Tiernan O’Connor, and features an introduction by Orlando Figes.

In Mikhail Bulgakov's imaginative extravaganza, Satan, disguised as a magician, descends upon Moscow in the 1930s with his riotous band, which includes a talking cat and an expert assassin. This visit has several aims, one of which concerns the fate of the Master, an author who has written a novel about Pontius Pilate and is now in a mental hospital. By turns satiric, fantastic and ironically philosophical, The Master and Margarita constantly surprises and entertains as the action switches back and forth between twentieth-century Moscow and first-century Jerusalem. (source)

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Mistr a Markétka je pravděpodobně kniha, o které se mnohem více hovoří než se ji čte. Považuje se totiž obecně za klasiku a nejúspěšnější dílo autora, ale je skutečnou otázkou, kde takový dojem vznikl. Děj knihy je vyšinutý a zbytečně spletitý, v podstatě se neubírá vůbec nikam a čtenář má tak pocit, že jen ztrácí čas, protože se nic nedozvěděl. Hlavní děj o rozsahu menšího časopisu je uměle rozšiřovaný nad 400 stran a často i nelogicky. Když se nějaká zápletka, která svou vážností ani nestojí za řeč, nějak rozplete, vzápětí autor vše zase pokračováním přetvoří, aby se rozpletla jinak. Tím čtenář předchozí stránky ani nemusel číst a trpí tak v nekonečném labyrintu, který nikam nevede, protože i závěr knihy je velmi neuspokojivý. Snad má kniha čtenáře bavit jako komedie, bohužel však "žerty" v knize nejsou vůbec vtipné.

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Slavic philology