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The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

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Author Biography

Name: Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov
Birth Date: May 2, 1891
Death Date: 1940
Place of Birth: Kiev, Russia
Place of Death: Russia
Nationality: Russian
Gender: Male
Occupations: novelist, playwright

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Biography of Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov
417 words, approx. 1.4 pages
The Russian novelist and playwright Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov (1891-1940) was a satirist with an outstanding talent for depicting the grotesque, the comic, and the fantastic. Mikhail Bulgakov was born on May 2, 1891, in Kiev of a middle-class intelle...
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Biography of Mikhail (Afanas'evich) Bulgakov
12806 words, approx. 42.7 pages
Mikhail Bulgakov wrote prolifically during a time when old social orders were breaking down and traditional values were rejected. In his story "No. 13. Dom El'pit-Rabkommuna" (No. 13. The Elpit-Rabkommun House, 1922), which describes the destruction of a...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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The Master and Margarita Information
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The Master and Margarita (Russian: Мастер и Маргарита) is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, woven about the premise of a visit by the Devil to the fervently atheistic Soviet Union. Many critics[attribution needed] consider the book to...


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The Washington Times
Margarita master.(NATION)(INSIDE THE BELTWAY)
07/12/2006: 751 words, approx. 3 pages
Byline: John McCaslin, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Margarita master Perhaps the U.S. Capitol Police should have been on hand to check IDs for proper proof of age during a recent margarita cocktail party in the hallowed halls of Congress, no less thrown...
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The Washington Post
'Master and Margarita': Soviet Unrealism
05/18/2004: 829 words, approx. 3 pages
Don't kick yourself if you have a devil of a time trying to ascertain what's going on in Synetic Theater's balletic adaptation of "The Master and Margarita," Mikhail Bulgakov's dense novel about the excesses and absurdities of life under Stalin. Put your concerns...
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AP News
Yeltsin buried among Russia's elite
4/25/2007: 560 words, approx. 2 pages
Set on a knoll overlooking an oxbow bend in the Moscow River, the hallowed ground of the Novodevichy Cemetery holds the remains of scores of engineers, artists and politicians who helped shape Russia's tormented past century.They include the loved and the loathed, the tragic and...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Richard W. F. Pope
15,008 words, approx. 50 pages
In the following essay, Pope argues that the ambiguity of the Afranius figure is essential to the meaning and structure of The Master and Margarita.
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Critical Essay by Vladimir Lakshin
14,466 words, approx. 48 pages
In the essay that follows, Lakshin presents an overview of The Master and Margarita and the novel's place in modern Russian literature.
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Critical Essay by Susan Amert
11,764 words, approx. 39 pages
Amert, Susan. “The Dialectics of Closure in Bulgakov's Master and Margarita.” The Russian Review 61, no. 4 (October 2002): 599-617. In the essay below, Amert explores the notion of endings—particularly death, but also narrative endings—in The Master and Margarita.
 
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Riders on the Storm
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An analysis of the themes of storms in the Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.


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