The Master and Margarita

22 hrs. 8 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Mikhail Bulgakov

Narrator Vyacheslav Manylov

Description

At the hour of an unbearably hot sunset at the Patriarchs’ Ponds, a story begins—one that has become the chief literary riddle of the twentieth century. The visit of Woland and his eccentric entourage to Moscow in the 1930s is not merely a sequence of mysterious incidents and merciless satire of Soviet everyday life, but a large-scale test of human nature itself. In this great novel-labyrinth, the fates of the Master, who created a dangerous novel about Pontius Pilate, and of Margarita, whose self-sacrificing love proves capable of shattering the boundaries of worlds, are woven together inseparably. Eternal Yershalaim—with its tormenting question about cowardice and devotion—becomes a mirror for bustling, vain Moscow, turning the book into a grand philosophical canvas about the inseparable connection between light and shadow. Mikhail Bulgakov created a world where reality is fragile, manuscripts do not burn, and true mercy sometimes comes from the most unexpected hands. This profound, multilayered narrative about the search for truth, atonement, and freedom begins where fear of the inevitable ends—a work that, in every new generation, finds its reader and never stops sounding frighteningly modern.