The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

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The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov

February 22, 2013 / 352 pages / Fiction

The Master and Margarita (Russian: «Ма́стер и Маргари́та») is a 1937 (not published until 1967) novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, woven around the premise of a visit by the Devil to the fervently atheistic Soviet Union. Many critics[1] consider it to be one of the best novels of the 20th century, and the foremost of Soviet satires, directed against a suffocatingly bureaucratic social order.

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Hilarious, profound, and badass. The devil visits Moscow and completely subverts the careful system of institutions that so many people take for granted. My one complaint is that there rarely seems to be much at stake for any character we care about, which is the only reason I wasn't glued to this book 24/7.

Grade: A– / soccereagle542 / Sep 3, 2013

This may sound arrogant, but I don't know why everyone loves this book so much. You just HAVE to be born in the USSR, you HAVE to remember what it was like and you HAVE to read the book in its original language in order to truly feel it. And while the story in undoubtedly one of the greatest ever written, the atmosphere Bulgakov creates brings the book to an all new, this time untouchable level.

Grade: A / vaxis / Feb 13, 2014

the perfect book. i read it once a year.

Grade: A+ / atom warcock / Sep 4, 2013

This book is so many things at once it's impossible to process right now. Aside from the obvious satires of the state there is a complex and unsettling morality at work here. I may have to come back to this here at a later date because a number of things trouble me, such as the identity of the master, Woland (who I don't *think* ever identifies himself as Satan at any point) and perhaps most critically of all the narrator. It feels like a delirious Kafka, embracing the existential terror and fi

Grade: A / TheBigBadG / Oct 5, 2016