The Master and Margarita - BookWyrm Underscore

Hardcover, 446 pages

English language

Published Feb. 8, 1992 by Knopf, Everyman's Library.

ISBN:: 978-0-679-41046-1
OCLC Number:: 24503392

The underground masterpiece of twentieth-century Russian fiction, Mikhail Bulgakov’s THE MASTER AND MARGARITA was written during Stalin’s regime and could not be published until many years after its author’s death. When the devil arrives in 1930s Moscow, consorting with a retinue of odd associates—including a talking black cat, an assassin, and a beautiful naked witch—his antics wreak havoc among the literary elite of the world capital of atheism. Meanwhile, the Master, author of an unpublished novel about Jesus and Pontius Pilate, languishes in despair in a pyschiatric hospital, while his devoted lover, Margarita, decides to sell her soul to save him. As Bulgakov’s dazzlingly exuberant narrative weaves back and forth between Moscow and ancient Jerusalem, studded with scenes ranging from a giddy Satanic ball to the murder of Judas in Gethsemane, Margarita’s enduring love for the Master joins the strands of plot across space and time.

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The underground masterpiece of twentieth-century Russian fiction, Mikhail Bulgakov’s THE MASTER AND MARGARITA was written during Stalin’s regime and could not be published until many years after its author’s death. When the devil arrives in 1930s Moscow, consorting with a retinue of odd associates—including a talking black cat, an assassin, and a beautiful naked witch—his antics wreak havoc among the literary elite of the world capital of atheism. Meanwhile, the Master, author of an unpublished novel about Jesus and Pontius Pilate, languishes in despair in a pyschiatric hospital, while his devoted lover, Margarita, decides to sell her soul to save him. As Bulgakov’s dazzlingly exuberant narrative weaves back and forth between Moscow and ancient Jerusalem, studded with scenes ranging from a giddy Satanic ball to the murder of Judas in Gethsemane, Margarita’s enduring love for the Master joins the strands of plot across space and time.

Source: www.randomhouse.com/knopf/classics//catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679410461

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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.