It’s not just about cute animals and home interiors, you know. I am a veryserious literary blog, I’ll have you know. So let me demonstrate just how highbrow I can be by dedicating a whole post to book covers. Here are some international editions of one of my favourite books, The Master and Margarita. No, it’s not just the preponderance of cats that I like about these book covers… How very dare you!?
Amazing Russian cover which encapsulates the book’s themes very well and has been turned into a T-shirt.Classic scene from the book, Margarita with her bouquet of yellow flowers. Romanian edition.The French cover has me in stitches: I mean, a ginger cat? Who had that idea?No, no, no, Italian publisher, what were you thinking? This is NOT a children’s book!Italy redeeming itself here with a cover that captures that Russian feel…Another Romanian cover with a nice sense of menace and minimalist colour scheme.You can see that this book was extremely popular in Romania: this is the third cover, another recent one.A sinister and gloomy cover from the UK.By way of contrast, this modernist interpretation of the cover.Highly stylized and stylish, another contemporary UK cover.Created as a playbill rather than a book cover, I think this would work well for both. From France.A 50th anniversary edition from Penguin – a work of art. But it’s translated by Pevear and Volokhonsky, who are not always my favourites.
