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Tacitean sidelights on The Master and Margarita
International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 1997Bulgakov's use of Tacitus' Annals in The Master and Margarita repays attention. Tacitus inspired his invention of Pilate's pre-Judaean career, the governor's physical courage being illustrated by flashbacks to the battle of Idistaviso (Ann. 2.16–18), while Tacitus' description of the operation of the law relating to maiestas (minuta) and of the ...
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M. Bulgakov's Novel the Master and Margarita
Soviet Studies in Literature, 1968One strange and fantastic moonlit night, after the ball at Satan's, when Margarita is reunited with her lover by the power of magic charms, the omnipotent Woland asks the master to show him his novel about Pontius Pilate. The master is unable to do this, because he had burnt his novel in the stove. "That cannot be," Woland objects.
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Margarita's Orgasms: Reading the Erotic in Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita
The Russian Review, 2018This article explores The Master and Margarita’s orientation to erotic themes, asking why do readers not think of this novel as erotic. Margarita is “nagaia i nevidimaia” (naked and invisible) during her flight in chapter 21, “Polet.” This description invites a potentially erotic visualization of Margarita, but this invitation is immediately withdrawn ...
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Proceedings of the 15th International Academic MindTrek Conference: Envisioning Future Media Environments, 2011
This paper presents Master and Margarita, an interactive audiovisual project for web and performance adapting Mikhail Bulgakov's novel of the same name. It aims to address two main research questions. First: how to integrate music and motion graphics in an interactive audiovisual project for the web and performance, in a way that is versatile, easy to ...
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This paper presents Master and Margarita, an interactive audiovisual project for web and performance adapting Mikhail Bulgakov's novel of the same name. It aims to address two main research questions. First: how to integrate music and motion graphics in an interactive audiovisual project for the web and performance, in a way that is versatile, easy to ...
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Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita and the Devil’s Carnival
1996The foregoing survey of some of the work of Soviet prose writers alerts us to the fact that a tendency to explore the grotesque features of medieval culture within a contemporary framework was well established as the 1930s began. Kharms and Vaginov in particular explored the literary past, both Russian and West European, finding symbols and ...
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Reaching a Reader: The Master's Audience in The Master and Margarita
Slavic Review, 1986At the end of Dr. Zhivago, Zhivago's old friends sit overlooking Moscow and read together a collection of his writings, compiled through the efforts of his devoted and somewhat mysterious half-brother. For all the dark times depicted in the novel, it ends with a dual affirmation of the power of art and of the spirit to survive.
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