Reader's Companion to Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita (eBook)

J.A.E. Curtis (Autor)

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2019
194 Seiten
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
978-1-64469-295-0 (ISBN)

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Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita, set in Stalin's Moscow, is an intriguing work with a complex structure, wonderful comic episodes and moments of great beauty. Readers are often left tantalized but uncertain how to understand its rich meanings. To what extent is it political? Or religious? And how should we interpret the Satanic Woland? This reader's companion offers readers a biographical introduction, and analyses of the structure and the main themes of the novel. More curious readers will also enjoy the accounts of the novel's writing and publication history, alongside analyses of the work's astonishing linguistic complexity and a review of available English translations.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.12.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Companions to Russian Literature
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 20th century literature • Atheism • Bulgakov • Christianity • Dark comedy • Faust • Gogol • Good and evil • Jerusalem • magical realism • modernism • Modern Literature • Moscow • Occult • oppressed writers • Political satire • pontius pilate • Propaganda • Russia • Russian Literature • Satire • Soviet Literature • Soviet Union • Stalin • Stalinism • The Bible • the Devil • The Master and Margarita • Translation
• ISBN-10: 1-64469-295-3 / 1644692953
• ISBN-13: 978-1-64469-295-0 / 9781644692950