Book Club – The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Come talk books with us! This month’s read – as selected by the group during our last meet-up – is Book Club: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. As always, we’ll provide a variety of snacks to munch on during the meet-up. We’ll close out the meeting by voting on next month’s book, so have your suggestions ready!

If you’re unable to purchase and/or borrow the book, we’ll have a copy available to read in the Arts and Craft Library.

This is a free event. To join, just read the book and show up at 7pm on Sunday, 1/26. That’s all there is to it!

Synopsis:

The underground masterpiece of twentieth-century Russian fiction, this classic novel was written during Stalin’s regime and could not be published until many years after its author’s death.

When the devil arrives in 1930s Moscow, consorting with a retinue of odd associates—including a talking black cat, an assassin, and a beautiful naked witch—his antics wreak havoc among the literary elite of the world capital of atheism. Meanwhile, the Master, author of an unpublished novel about Jesus and Pontius Pilate, languishes in despair in a pyschiatric hospital, while his devoted lover, Margarita, decides to sell her soul to save him. As Bulgakov’s dazzlingly exuberant narrative weaves back and forth between Moscow and ancient Jerusalem, studded with scenes ranging from a giddy Satanic ball to the murder of Judas in Gethsemane, Margarita’s enduring love for the Master joins the strands of plot across space and time.