Description: This book, part of the acclaimed AATSEEL Critical Companions series, is designed to guide readers through Mikhail Bulgakov's satirical masterpiece. An introduction places The Master and Margarita and Bulgakov within Russian history and literature, and essays by scholars offer opinion and analysis of the novel's structure, its place in current criticism, its connection to Goethe, and its symbolism and motifs. There is also an abundance of primary source material, including an excerpt from an earlier version of the novel, and related correspondence and diary entries.
