Essays about the Master and Margarita
The Dialectics of Closure in The
Master and Margarita
Amert, Susan
Amert explores the notion of endings - particularly death, but also
narrative endings - in The Master and Margarita.
Sin and Redemption
Anderson, Anthony
Anderson argues that yet, despite this arguably unforgivable
moral failing, the reader is nevertheless able to sympathize with the procurator.
Mythic and Daimonic Paradigms
Arenberg, Carol
Arenberg discusses Bulgakovs ideas about history and artists, and how they lead to the thematic structure of the novel.
Through the Lens of Carnival
Arnold, Yanina
In her doctoral thesis Yanina Arnold studied themes as Identity, Community and Fear in The Master and Margarita.
The Author and the Magician
Arnold, Troy
In this article Troy Arnold discusses how in Bortko's movie historical mysti-cism is melted with modern cinema.
e-notes
Author unknown
A high school level paper on Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita.
The Human Response to Evil and Injustice
Author unknown
On the weblog Nonsense On Stilts are published “the Occasional Writings and Accidental
Observations of a Southerner in Boston”, among which es-says prepared for his
undergraduate thesis at Marlboro College.
The Master and Margarita: An Analysis
Author unknown
This four-page undergraduate paper examines the themes of Michael Bul-gakov’s Stalinist
era novel, The Master and Margarita. The author analyzes the analogies, discusses the
significance of the interwoven stories, and explores the New Testament aspects of the
book.
The Master's Audience in The Master and Margarita
Avins, Carol
Avins discusses the role of the unknown reader of the text of the Master as keepers and possible communicators of the text.
Master & Margarita: a literary autobiography?
Belenkiy, Ari
An essay written on the 60th anniversary of the death of the Master.
History as Hippodrome: The Apocalyptic Horse and Rider...
Bethea, David M.
Bethea discusses Bulgakov's use of the image of the horseman from the Book of Revelations in The Master and Margarita.
The Master and Margarita
BookRags Literary Study Guide
This BookRags Literature Study Guide is offprint from Gale's For Students Series: Presenting
Analysis, Context and Criticism on Commonly Studied Works.
Mikhail Afanas'evich Bulgakov
BookRags Biography
Biography of Mikhail Bulgakov, presented by Amy Singleton Adams, College of the Holy
Cross.
Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita and Gabriel
Garcia...
Brown, Stephanie
Brown compares Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude and Mikhail
Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita. Both are novels which concentrate thematically on
the relations of power between humans, and the violence of authoritarian control.
Jesus and Satan in Moscow
Bruhn, Siglind
Bruhn compares three opera's based on Mikhail
Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita. The composers are York Höller, Rainer Kunad and Sergey Slonimsky.
A Popular Reading of Bulgakov:
Explication des Graffiti
Bushnell, John
An analysis of the graffiti in Bolshaya Sadovaya, as they appeared in the au-tumn of 1988.
Political Satire in The Master and Margarita
Curtis, J.A.E.
Mikhail Bulgakov and the Red Army's Polo Instructor -
Curtis provides a biographical account of Bulgakov's involvement
with American diplomats in Russia and argues that the author satirized his experience in
The Master and Margarita.
The Master and Margarita: The Reach Exceeds the Grasp
Delaney, Joan
Delaney studies the meaning of the character of the Master in the novel, and argues against a Faustian interpretation.
Analysis of Koroviev's (Fagot's) Character
Dudka
On the Custom Papers Network is published this short paper from an au-thor known as
Dudka, describing the Koroviev character in The Master and Margarita.
The Apocalyptic Vision of The Master and Margarita
Ericson, Edward E. Jr.
Ericson posits that Russian Orthodox Christian doctrine is the
fundamental context in which The Master and Margarita must be understood.
The Mystery of the Master's Final Destination
Frank, Margot K.
Frank discusses the possible reasons for the fate of the Master at the end of the novel.
Existential Thought in The Master and Margarita
Glenny, Michael
Glenny explores possible neo-Platonic influences on The Master and Mar-garita.
Why Can't Critics Agree on What It Means?
Gurevich, Olga
An analysis of the parallels between the three worlds described in the no-vel: the real Moscow in the twenties and thirties, the world of Woland and his retinue, and the historical world of Pilate.
Cases of Schizophrenia in The Master and Margarita
Gimpelevich, Zina
Gimpelevich examines Bulgakov's use of schizophrenia as a
literary device in The Master and Margarita.
Darkness Visible: Bulgakov and Milton
Gorbunov, A. N.
Professor A. N. Gorbunov of the Moscow State University argues that Bul-gakov, while
writing his last novel, may not specially have thought about Mil-ton, but his poetry in spite
of this could have remained in the Russian wri-ter’s memory as a kind of a cultural frame
or an inter-text.
The Mythic Structure of The Master and Margarita
Haber, Edythe C.
In this essay Haber argues that Bulgakov's use of the mythical stories of Faust and Christ doesn't follow a strict and linear interpretation, but that he interweaves elements to create a mythical structure of his own...
The Master and Margarita
Knowledge Reports
An short analysis of The Master and Margarita published by Knowledge Re-ports.
The Master & Margarita and Freedom of Censorship
Kudelina, Aleksandra
Seminar paper presented at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Institut für
Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft.
Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita
Lakshin, Vladimir
Lakshin presents an overview of The Master and Margarita and situates the novel within the modern Russian literature.
Bulgakov's Faith: Fact and Fiction
Lakshin, Vladimir
Lakshin discusses Bulgakov's faith in the context of his relation with Stalin.
Фантастиский Роман о Дьяволе
Лосев, Виктор
The Fantastic Novel about the Devil. Victor Losev discusses the genesis of The Master and
Margarita.
Dreams, Devils, Irrationality,
and The Master and Margarita
Mills, Judith M.
Mills explores traditional Russian literary elements as well as modern
psy-choanalytic dream theory in The Master and Margarita.
The Gnostic devil in Bulgakov's "Master and Margerita"
Neininger, Marc
A comparative study of the devil figure in Goethe's "Faust" and the presen-tation of the
devil in the bible. The focus lies on Bulgakov's devil figuration, however. The essay also
deals with the Gnostic aspects in "Master and Margarita".
Une cure de fantastique ou Mikhail Boulgakov
Nivat, Georges
The author assesses the most important interpretations of The Master and Margarita of these last few years. He maintains the interpretation of the novelas a "mythologising novel ". Published in Cahiers du Monde Russe, Année 1983, Volume 24, Numéro 3, p. 247 - 259. Source: Le Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’en-seignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documen-tation.
The Master and Margarita
Parkes, Alexa
Parkes beschrijft hoe, door het gebruik van fantastische elementen in zijn roman De meester en
Margarita, Boelgakov de fundamenten van de Sovjet-zekerheden ridiculiseert en probeert te ondermijnen.
The Role of Afranius
Pope, Richard W.F.
Pope arguments that the ambiguity of the Afranius character is essential for the meaning and the structure of The Master and Margarita.
The Model of a Parody of Christ
Pruitt, Donald B.
Pruitt arguments that the way in which Bulgakov tells the biblical story, shows that he based himself on the Gospel of John.
Key and Tripod in The Master and Margarita
Reidel Schrewe, Ursula
Schrewe examines the significance of items which figure in
both Goethe's Faust and Bulgakov's Master and Margarita.
The Sources for The Master and Margarita
Sokolov, B.V.
Bulgakov expert Sokolov analyses the philosophical grounds of The Master and Margarita.
Sympathy For The Devil
Taylor, Mia
Taylor discusses the ill-fated attempts of Polanski, Fellini, Manzarak, and a host of others to bring The Master and Margarita to the big screen.
Bulgakov's Master i Margarita:
Post-Romantic Devil Pacts
Testa, Carlo
Testa traces the development of the devil figure in post-Romantic
Europe-an literature and Bulgakov's use of the devil in The Master and Margarita.
Chervontsi or roubles - does it matter?
Vanhellemont, Jan
In The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov used several times the word chervonets. According to Jan Vanhellemont it’s a pity that the English, French and Dutch translators of Bulgakov’s masterpiece translated this word as ten-rouble bill. He argues that, by doing so, they missed a part of Bulgakov's satire on the subject of money in the Soviet Union era.
In Defense of the Homeless
Weeks, Laura D.
Weeks discusses the character
Ivan Bezdomny in the novel.
