LONG NOVEL SERIES

 Saturday, August 14 and 21, 2021 from 2:00 – 4:30 PM  

Online via Zoom

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Long Novel Series Overview  Join us for two Saturdays in August devoted to discussing a single long work of fiction using the Shared Inquiry Method.  In 2021, we'll discuss Mikhail Bulgakov’s classic novel The Master and Margarita, in a newly revised translation by Pevear and Volokhonsky. Series Schedule: Session (Part 1 of the novel) on Saturday, August 14 from 2:00 – 4:30 PST Session (Part 2 of the novel) on Saturday, August 21 from 2:00 – 4:30 PST

 

About the Book

“By turns hilarious, mysterious, contemplative, and poignant…a great work.

   - Chicago Tribune

 “Nothing in the whole of literature compares with The Master and Margarita. One spring afternoon, the Devil, trailing fire and chaos in his wake, weaves himself out of the shadows and into Moscow. Mikhail Bulgakov’s fantastical, funny, and devastating satire of Soviet life combines two distinct yet interwoven parts, one set in contemporary Moscow, the other in ancient Jerusalem, each brimming with historical, imaginary, frightful, and wonderful characters. Written during the darkest days of Stalin’s reign, and finally published in 1966 and 1967, The Master and Margarita became a literary phenomenon, signaling artistic and spiritual freedom for Russians everywhere.”

The newly revised translation, by the award-winning team of Pevear and Volokhonsky, is made from the complete and unabridged Russian text.

 About the Author

Mikhail Bulgakov was born in Kiev in May, 1891. He studied and briefly practiced medicine and, after indigent wanderings through revolutionary Russia and the Caucasus, he settled in Moscow in 1921.  He was a playwright as well as the biographer of his literary hero, Moliere. The Master and Margarita, a fantasy novel about the devil and his henchmen set in modern Moscow, is generally considered his masterpiece. He achieved fame only after his death in 1940

About the Translators

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have translated works by Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, Gogol, and Pasternak. The award-winning couple are married and live and Paris.

 Publication

 We will use the Penguin Classics Deluxe 50^th Anniversary paperback edition with an introduction by Richard Pevear.  

ISBN 978-0-14-310827-6

Please purchase only this edition from your bookseller.

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