The Master and Margarita
19.99 €
In stock
The Master and Margarita
19.99 €
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov began work on The Master and Margarita in 1928 and continued to work on this work until the end of his life. After the writer's death in March 1940, a voluminous manuscript of the novel with numerous author's edits was left. In his will Bulgakov appointed his wife Elena Sergeevna Bulgakov as his successor. After 23 years, through her efforts, the manuscript of the novel took quite a finished form. A few years later, the novel was printed in the magazine "Moscow" in № 11 for 1966 and in № 1 for 1967 with significant cuts and distortions of censorship. 159 cuts were made, which amounted to about 12% of the novel's total text. 1600 sentences were deleted from the manuscript, and 67 were distorted so that they could no longer be fully considered Bulgakovian. As a result, numerous semantic and textual inconsistencies appeared in the novel. The text of the novel published in 1973 by the publishing house "Khudozhestvennaya Literatura" also differed in many places from the manuscript prepared by E. S. Bulgakova. S. Bulgakova. The preface did not mention the complete uncensored Russian edition of The Master and Margarita, published in 1969 by the Posev publishing house in Frankfurt am Main, in which the places removed by the Soviet censorship were typed in italics. It is this complete, uncensored text of the novel that is now being published in Russia for the first time. More than 60 works were made especially for this edition by the famous St. Petersburg artist Olga Venediktovna Grablevskaya. Olga graduated from the Book Graphics Department of the Repin Institute. Published more than 150 books in her design. Leo Tolstoy, O. Wilde, O. Mandelstam, A. Averchenko, Taffy, Ilf and Petrov - gift books of these and other authors were published in various publishing houses, have diplomas and awards. In 2013 Olga became the winner of the All-Russian contest "Lermontov 2014", and in 2014 Pyatigorsk publishing house "SNEG" published a gift two-volume book of the poet with 150 full-color illustrations. Grablevskaya's repeated reference to the works of the classics of Russian humoristics is not accidental. Illustrations to works by Chekhov, Averchenko, novels "12 Chairs" and "Golden Calf" by Ilf and Petrov confirm the artist's outstanding sense of humor. In 2001 she became a laureate of the International Cartoonists' Contest in Turkey. For many years Olga has been cooperating with the children's magazine "Koster". Grablevskaya's light, expressive easel and book graphics are exhibited at many collective and personal exhibitions in Russia and abroad.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Library of World Literature