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50th Anniversary Edition Book Launch: The Master and Margarita

Featuring a panel discussion with Darin Strauss, Liesl Schillinger and Masha Gessen in conversation with foreword author Boris Fishman

Celebrate the 125th anniversary of Mikhail Bulgakov’s birth on May 15 with Penguin Classics’ 50th-anniversary edition of his masterpiece, The Master and Margarita, a novel that has been championed by a dizzying array of cultural icons, among them David Bowie, Patti Smith, Mick Jagger, Salman Rushdie, Paul Giamatti, and Daniel Radcliffe. The Penguin Classics edition is the acclaimed, newly revised translation by the premiere translators of Russian, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, and it features a passionate new foreword by Soviet-born, NYC-based novelist and critic Boris Fishman and specially-commissioned cover art by painter and tattoo artist Christopher Conn Askew.

On a spring afternoon, the Devil arrives in Moscow, igniting Bulgakov’s fantastical and funny novel. A devastating satire of Soviet life, The Master and Margarita 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, twenty-five years after its author’s death, it became a literary phenomenon, signaling artistic and spiritual freedom for Russians everywhere—and containing eerie resonances with contemporary Russia.

Wildly original and fanatically embraced, The Master and Margarita blends outlandish humor and pressing ethical questions, dark realities and soaring mythical elements. In his electrifying foreword, Boris Fishman calls it “Beautiful, strange, tender, scarifying, and incandescent . . . One of those novels that, even in translation, make one feel that not one word could have been written differently,” and says, “As literature, it will live forever.”











When: Tue., May. 3, 2016 at 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where: powerHouse Arena
28 Adams St.
718-666-3049
Price: Free
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Featuring a panel discussion with Darin Strauss, Liesl Schillinger and Masha Gessen in conversation with foreword author Boris Fishman

Celebrate the 125th anniversary of Mikhail Bulgakov’s birth on May 15 with Penguin Classics’ 50th-anniversary edition of his masterpiece, The Master and Margarita, a novel that has been championed by a dizzying array of cultural icons, among them David Bowie, Patti Smith, Mick Jagger, Salman Rushdie, Paul Giamatti, and Daniel Radcliffe. The Penguin Classics edition is the acclaimed, newly revised translation by the premiere translators of Russian, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, and it features a passionate new foreword by Soviet-born, NYC-based novelist and critic Boris Fishman and specially-commissioned cover art by painter and tattoo artist Christopher Conn Askew.

On a spring afternoon, the Devil arrives in Moscow, igniting Bulgakov’s fantastical and funny novel. A devastating satire of Soviet life, The Master and Margarita 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, twenty-five years after its author’s death, it became a literary phenomenon, signaling artistic and spiritual freedom for Russians everywhere—and containing eerie resonances with contemporary Russia.

Wildly original and fanatically embraced, The Master and Margarita blends outlandish humor and pressing ethical questions, dark realities and soaring mythical elements. In his electrifying foreword, Boris Fishman calls it “Beautiful, strange, tender, scarifying, and incandescent . . . One of those novels that, even in translation, make one feel that not one word could have been written differently,” and says, “As literature, it will live forever.”

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