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The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov

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Title

The Master and Margarita

Subitle

Mikhail Bulgakov. The Master and Margarita. Tr. Michael Glenny. New York: Harper & Row, 1967.

Author

Mikhail Bulgakov

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Russian

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Russian

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Mikhail Bulgakov. The Master and Margarita. Tr. Michael Glenny. New York: Harper & Row, 1967.

Paratexts 1

Preface 1968

Mirra Ginsburg, Patricia Blake, Michael Glenny. Letters to the Editor: Mirra Ginsburg

In a review (Oct<ober> 22, 1967) of “The Master and Margarita” by Mikhail Bulgakov, Patricia Blake wrote that “Two editions of ‘The Master and Margarita’ have been published in America...

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Reviews 6

Review 1968

Victoria A. Babenko. Review of The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Mirra Ginsburg

“In this day and age!” exclaims the Devil in Bulgakov’s novel upon meeting the Master, who, in Soviet Russia in the 1920’s, has written a book about Pontius Pilate and the Crucifixion of Jesus...

Review 1967

Patricia Blake. “A Bargain with the Devil”

Patricia Blake

“You could cover the whole world with asphalt,” remarked the late Ilya Ehrenburg, “but sooner or later green grass would break through.” In this fashion, the process of suppression of modern Russian literature...

Review 1968

Gleb Struve. Review of The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Gleb Struve

There are at least two novel and striking features in the Soviet literature of the post-Stalin period. One of them is what could be described as “émigré books by non-émigré writers...

Review 1967

Eliot Fremont-Smith. The Devil in Moscow, Plus Gremlins

Mirra Ginsburg

Mikhail Bulgakov died in 1940 at the age of 48, unsung and virtually unknown. As was the case with so many of the brightest stars of early Soviet art and literature, his works — short stories, the novel “The White Guard” (1925), several...

Review 1967

Henry Raymont. Soviet Novel Due in 2 U.S. Versions. Bulgakov Work Will Appear in ‘Cut’ and ‘Uncut’ Editions

Henry Raymont

Harper & Row will publish on Oct<ober> 4 an English translation of what the publishing house said is the unexpurgated version of the late Mikhail A. Bulgakov’s controversial and long-suppressed novel...

Review 1969

Edward J. Czerwinski. The Bulgakov Phenomenon

Mirra Ginsburg

Prior to 1965, Bulgakov’s fame rested on his novel The White Guard (1924), his notoriety on the novel’s dramatization, Days of the Turbines (1926), which was at first acclaimed...

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