The Master and Margarita
18 hrs. 50 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Mikhail Bulgakov
Author
Mikhail Bulgakov
Narrator
Alexander Terenkov
Narrator
Alexander Terenkov
Description
The genre uniqueness of “The Master and Margarita” makes it impossible to define Bulgakov’s novel in any straightforward way.
American literary scholar M. Kreppe noted this very well in his book “Bulgakov and Pasternak as Novelists: An Analysis of the Novels ‘The Master and Margarita’ and ‘Doctor Zhivago’ (1984)”: “Bulgakov’s novel is truly highly innovative for Russian literature, and therefore difficult to grasp. Only when a critic approaches it with the old standard system of measures do you discover that some things are so, and some things are completely not. Fantasy bumps into strict realism; myth meets painstaking historical accuracy; theosophy confronts demonology; romance collides with clowning.”
If you add that the action of the Ershalaim scenes of “The Master and Margarita”—the novel by the Master about Pontius Pilate—takes place over the course of a single day, satisfying the requirements of classicism, you can confidently say that Bulgakov’s novel has brought together, quite organically, virtually all the genres and literary movements existing in the world. Especially since “The Master and Margarita” is often defined as a symbolist, post-symbolist, or neo-romantic novel. In addition, it can also be called a post-realist novel. Shared with modernist and postmodern, avant-garde literature is the fact that Bulgakov builds the novel’s reality—without excluding even the modern Moscow chapters—almost exclusively on the basis of literary sources, while infernal fantasy penetrates deeply into Soviet everyday life.
American literary scholar M. Kreppe noted this very well in his book “Bulgakov and Pasternak as Novelists: An Analysis of the Novels ‘The Master and Margarita’ and ‘Doctor Zhivago’ (1984)”: “Bulgakov’s novel is truly highly innovative for Russian literature, and therefore difficult to grasp. Only when a critic approaches it with the old standard system of measures do you discover that some things are so, and some things are completely not. Fantasy bumps into strict realism; myth meets painstaking historical accuracy; theosophy confronts demonology; romance collides with clowning.”
If you add that the action of the Ershalaim scenes of “The Master and Margarita”—the novel by the Master about Pontius Pilate—takes place over the course of a single day, satisfying the requirements of classicism, you can confidently say that Bulgakov’s novel has brought together, quite organically, virtually all the genres and literary movements existing in the world. Especially since “The Master and Margarita” is often defined as a symbolist, post-symbolist, or neo-romantic novel. In addition, it can also be called a post-realist novel. Shared with modernist and postmodern, avant-garde literature is the fact that Bulgakov builds the novel’s reality—without excluding even the modern Moscow chapters—almost exclusively on the basis of literary sources, while infernal fantasy penetrates deeply into Soviet everyday life.
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