Paolo Nori on The Master and Margarita

About the event

Paolo Nori tells the story of Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita. When Einaudi published it in 1967, Eugenio Montale called it a miracle to be greeted with emotion. The following year the Rolling Stones recorded Sympathy for the Devil, which Mick Jagger wrote after reading the book.

Bulgakov was a Russian writer born in Ukraine. In March 1930 he wrote to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR that in ten years of literary work he had received 301 reviews from the Soviet press, 3 favourable and 298 hostile and abusive.

Nori describes the novel as a book about good, evil, justice and the relationship between art and literature, and perhaps the most contemporary of the twentieth-century Russian classics. After Crime and Punishment, he sets out to tell it in 90 minutes.

Typical weather

No forecast yet. In January Viareggio averages 11° by day and 5° at night, with rain on about 13 days of the month.

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Getting to Viareggio

By car, leave the A12 at the Viareggio-Camaiore exit; the Viareggio–Lucca link road joins the A11 Florence motorway. Viareggio station is on the Genoa–Pisa line and is the terminus of the line to Lucca and Florence, with regional trains towards Pisa, La Spezia, Lucca and Florence. From Pisa airport, the PisaMover shuttle runs to Pisa Centrale in about 5 minutes, where you change to a train for Viareggio.

Parking: On-street parking in Viareggio is mostly paid blue-line parking, run for the Comune by MoVer (Mobilità Versilia). Rates vary by zone; pay at the meters or with the MoVer app. The signs on site always apply.

About Viareggio

Viareggio is the largest town on the Versilia coast, a resort of about 60,000 people with an entirely sandy shoreline on the Ligurian Sea.

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