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...MASTER AND MARGARITA by Mikhail Bulgakov, translated by Michael Glenny. 394 pages. Harper...
...MASTER AND MARGARITA by Mikhail Bulgakov, translated by Mirra Ginsburg. 402 pages. Grove Press...
...atheist Russia, a Bible story! After more than a quarter of a century of suppression, The Master and Margarita, by Soviet Novelist Mikhail Bulgakov, has surfaced as a magazine serial in Russia, and in two translations in the U.S. The full text is published by Harper & Row, and the cut-down Russian version by Grove Press. Doubtless the U.S. publishers are right in claiming that the novel is "the most talked-about literary work in Russia today." Bulgakov, who died in 1940, is officially described in the Soviet Encyclopaedia as "a slanderer of Soviet reality." The work...
...satisfaction of killing Judas, and the further mercy of believing that the Crucifixion never took place at all. Thus does the Devil bless mankind by giving it a comfortable lie by which to live. The Master can forget his obsession and remains in peace with his beautiful mistress Margarita (who has given up a promising career as a witch for his sake). But Bulgakov makes clear his own belief: Pilate's guilt, an expedient cowardice that allows power to destroy good men, still lies on Russia...
Even more remarkable is the fact that The Master and Margarita has become the most talked about work in Russia today. It was published in two installments in the liberal monthly Moskva, of which Soviet readers have already bought 150,000 copies (the novel has yet to appear in book form). Soviet critics, many of whom have declared it a masterpiece, discuss it endlessly. Bulgakov wrote six plays and five novels, but The Master and Margarita, which critics knew existed but had never seen in print, is perhaps his most daring work. Its publication for the first time in Russia...