![]() ![]() ![]() Mikhail Bulgakov was a playwright and author. ![]() Many critics consider it to be one of the best novels of the 20th century, as well as the foremost of Soviet satires. ![]() The Master and Margarita combines supernatural elements with satirical dark comedy and Christian philosophy, defying categorization within a single genre. The devil, manifested as one Professor Woland, challenges the Soviet citizen's beliefs towards religion and condemns their behavior throughout the book. The story concerns a visit by the devil and his entourage to the officially atheistic Soviet Union. The novel has since been published in several languages and editions. A samizdat version circulated that included parts cut out by official censors, and these were incorporated in a 1969 version published in Frankfurt. The manuscript was not published as a book until 1967, in Paris. A censored version, with several chapters cut by editors, was published in Moscow magazine in 1966–1967, after the writer's death, by his widow. However, it's not possible to date the timeline of the Moscow part of the novel.The Master and Margarita ( Russian: Мастер и Маргарита) is a novel by Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the Soviet Union between 19 during Stalin's regime. Barkov believes that the year of Gorky's death (1936) is the time of the events in the "Master and Margarita". Īccording to Barkov, one of Master's prototypes was Maxim Gorky - the most well-known proletarian writer. Most scholars find the Master character hugely autobiographical: Mikhail Bulgakov burnt the first variant of his novel, and even after rewriting it, he realized that it was next to impossible to publish such an unorthodox book in the USSR.Īlfred Barkov offers an alternative interpretation of the Master character: "the ominous meaning (of the term "master" ) becomes evident if you realize that the System used it to define the writers who were ready to choke their ambitions and create something that it wants". In the case of Bulgakov's character, Master opposes the socialist realism. In both Russian and world literature Master became the epitome of the artist, the author, who opposes the official culture of his time. In the novel his name is written without capitalizing the first letter. His own answer to the question is: "I don't have a last name". He gets back the burnt manuscript and gives the Master and his beloved Margarita a place for eternal serenity and retreat. Woland became interested in the story of the Master's novel. After the investigation Master was freed but, having nowhere to live, no money and no purpose in life, he decided to find refuge in a mental hospital. The same newspaper criticisms gave one of the Master's acquaintances, Aloiziy Mogarych, the idea to write a false report to the authorities to seize Master's apartment. After a lot of harassment he gradually went mad and at the moment of despair burned his novel. His first attempt to publish it, however, caused a barrage of criticism from professional writers in the press. Master is a Muscovite, a former historian and a highly educated person who speaks several foreign languages.Īfter winning a large sum of money in the lottery he decided to fully dedicate himself to writing a novel about Pontius Pilate and the last days in life of Yeshua Ha-Nozri. Master (Russian: Ма́стер) is a fictional character from the novel The Master and Margarita by the Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov. ![]()
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