Curtis A Reader’s Companion to Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-64469-295-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 194 Seiten

Reihe: Companions to Russian Literature

Readers are often left uncertain how to understand the rich meanings of Mikhail Bulgakov’s comic and beautiful novel The Master and Margarita. To what extent is it political? Or religious? And how should we interpret the Satanic Woland? This Companion guides the readers through the work’s thematic, structural and linguistic complexities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Curtis, J.A.E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Slawische Literaturen Ostslawische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of ContentsForeword1. Bulgakov’s Life: Formative Years and First Successes—1891–19282. Bulgakov’s Life: Battling the Censor, and Writing The Master and Margarita—1929-19403. The Master and Margarita: Drafts and Final Version4. Publication History of The Master and Margarita in Russian5. A Tale of Two Cities: The Structure of The Master and Margarita6. Woland: Good and Evil in The Master and Margarita 7. Pilate and Ieshua: Biblical Themes in The Master and Margarita 8. Political Satire in The Master and Margarita9. Literature and the Writer in The Master and Margarita10. “So who are you, then?”: Narrative voices in The Master and Margarita, Followed by a Stylistic Analysis of Extracts from the Text11. English Translations of The Master and MargaritaAfterword—A Personal ReflectionAcknowledgements
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

J. A. E. Curtis has been exploring the life and works of Mikhail Bulgakov since the 1970s, when The Master and Margarita sensationally appeared for the first time. She teaches Russian Literature at the University of Oxford, and has also published research on Evgenii Zamiatin, and on 21st-century Russian drama.