Guide to M. Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita

In contrast to the previously published general encyclopedic editions devoted to Mikhail Bulgakov. Unlike previously published general encyclopedic editions devoted to M. Bulgakov, this Guide is limited to one central work, but examines it in all possible aspects, in much greater detail than other guides: history of creation and publication, characterization and textual evaluation of different editions, critical responses, all characters named by name, significant place names, prototypes, evangelical convergences and divergences, Jewish realities, leitmotifs and symbols, the occult layer of the novel, autobiographical details, literary allusions, stylistic and linguistic peculiarities, and much more.

The guide is equipped with extensive illustrative material, bibliography and indexes of names and works, facilitating the use of the book, which is designed for the widest range of admirers of Mikhail Bulgakov.