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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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e-notes - Author unknown
A high school level paper on Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita.
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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 are essays written for his undergraduate thesis at Marlboro College.
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The Master and Margarita: An Analysis - Author unknown
This undergraduate paper examines the themes of Michael Bulgakov’s Stalinist era novel, The Master and Margarita. The author analyzes the ana-logies, discusses the significance of the interwoven stories, and explores the New Testament aspects of the book.
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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.
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Master & Margarita: a literary autobiography? - Belenkiy, Ari
An essay written on the 60th anniversary of the death of the Master.
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History as Hippodrome: The Apocalyptic Horse... - Bethea, David M.
Bethea discusses Bulgakov's use of the image of the horseman from the Book of Revelations in The Master and Margarita.
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The Master and Margarita - BookRags Literary Study Guide
This BookRags Literature Study Guide is an offprint from Gale's For Stud-ents Series and presents analysises, context descriptions, and criticism on commonly studied works.
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Michail Afanas'evich Boelgakov - BookRags Biography
Biography of Mikhail Bulgakov, presented by Amy Singleton Adams, Col-lege of the Holy Cross.
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The Master and Margarita and Gabriel Garcia Marquez... - 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Existential Thought in The Master and Margarita - Glenny, Michael
Glenny explores possible neo-Platonic influences on The Master and Mar-garita.
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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.
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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.
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Darkness Visible: Bulgakov and Milton - Gorbunov, A. N.
Professor A. N. Gorbunov of the Moscow State University argues that Bulga-kov, 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 intertext.
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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.
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The Master and Margarita - Knowledge Reports
An short analysis of The Master and Margarita published by Knowledge Re-ports.
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The Master & Margarita and Freedom of Censorship - Kudelina, Aleksandra
Seminar paper presented at the Ludwig Maximilians Universität München Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft.
English original - pdf 26 pages

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.
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Bulgakov's Faith: Fact and Fiction - Lakshin, Vladimir
Lakshin discusses Bulgakov's faith in the context of his relation with Stalin.
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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.
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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 The Master and Margarita.
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The Master and Margarita - Parkes, Alexa
Parkes describes how, through the use of fantastic elements in his novel The Master and Margarita, Bulgakov tries to ridiculise and undermine the foundations of the Soviet security.
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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.
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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.
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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 The Master and Margarita.
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The Sources for The Master and Margarita - Sokolov, B.V.
Bulgakov expert Sokolov analyses the philosophical grounds of The Master and Margarita.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In Defense of the Homeless - Weeks, Laura D.
Weeks discusses the character Ivan Bezdomny in the novel.
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French

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 novel as a "mythologising novel ". Published in Cahiers du Monde Russe, Année 1983, Volume 24, Nu-méro 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 bi-bliothèques et de la docu-mentation.
French original - pdf 14 pages


Dutch

Van vergetelheid tot beroemdheid - Pieter Boulogne
A seminar on The Master and Margarita was organized on November 16, 2007 in Antwerp. Pieter Boulogne (PhD student, KUL) presented the story about the rehabilitation of Bulgakov which, at first sight, began on an unex-pected moment.
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De meester en Margarita - De roman en de film - Vikki Raskin
In her master paper at the Catholic University of Leuven, Vikki Raskin com-pares Vladimir Bortko's film with Mikhail Bulgakov's novel.
Dutch original - pdf 63 pages

Van roman tot graphic novel - Maarten Van Tieghem
Maarten Van Tieghem graduated summa cum lauda at the University of Ghent with a master paper, in which he compared the comic strip adapta-tions of The Master and Margarita.
Dutch original - pdf 84 pages


Russian

Фантастиский Роман о Дьяволе - Лосев, Виктор
The Fantastic Novel about the Devil. Victor Losev discusses the genesis of The Master and Margarita.
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