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Books about The Master and Margarita
In 2020,on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Mikhail Bulgakov's completion of The Master and Margarita, your webmaster decided to compile the Annotations per chapter of this website into one book. It is entitled The Master and Margarita. Annotations per chapter.
The second book, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About The Master & Margarita, contains detailed descriptions of all the characters from the novel and their prototypes in real life. You will also find information about the places that Bulgakov described and the role they played in the life of the author. In the appendices of this book you will find the text of a passage that does not appear in the English translation of the novel, and the full text of Bears in the Caviar, the hilarious eyewitness report which Charles Thayer wrote about the sensational Spring Festival which the American ambassador William Bullitt had organised in Moscow on April 23, 1935, and where Mikhail Bulgakov himself was present. It inspired him to describe the famous Ball of Satan.
Both books contain a set of 33 illustrations created by your webmaster. In the printed version these illustrations are shown in black and white, in the e-book version they are in colour.
The third book, My Poor, Poor Master, is a unique resource for anyone wanting to understand how the novel has evolved since its first editing in 1928 and its last revisions in 1940, on Bulgakov's deathbed. A significant portion of the original manuscripts was mutilated or destroyed by censorship or, as a reflex of self-preservation, by Bulgakov himself. Some of these were reassembled thanks to the painstaking work of Viktor Losev.
Because the surviving manuscripts of these eight versions of the novel are collected here chronologically, you can see how, when and why Bulgakov deleted characters from the story or changed their names, and how he added new ones. This provides exceptional insight into the evolution of life in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940, and into the author's personal life. Commentaries by both the compiler and the translator provide helpful insights.
The Dutch translation, Mijn arme, arme meester was made simultaneously with the English translation. The French translation, Mon pauvre, pauvre maître, is one of the projects the Mikhail Bulgakov Circle plans to complete in the fall of 2026.
Books about Mikhail Bulgakov
On December 1, 2023, we published the book Levensverhaal van Michail Boelgakov, the Dutch translation of the extensive Bulgakov biography written by the Russian Bulgakov expert Marietta Chudakova in 1988. This book is widely regarded as the definitive biography of the author of The Master and Margarita. As an additional appendix, our translation also includes the complete bibliography of Mikhail Bulgakov, in which we have listed in chronological order all the novels, plays, and feuilletons he ever wrote.
On December 1, 2024, we published the same book translated in English by your webmaster as Life and Works of Mikhail Bulgakov. The French translation La vie et l'œuvre de Mikhaïl Boulgakov is one of the projects the Mikhail Bulgakov Circle plans to complete in the fall of 2026.. Like the Dutch translation, both the English and th French versions contain as an extra the complete bibliography of Mikhail Bulgakov.
On May 1, 2024, we published Dagboeken en herinneringen or Diaries and Memories by Bulgakov's third wife Yelena Sergeevna Bulgakova translated in Dutch by your webmaster.In addition to her diaries from 1933 to 1940, this book also contains the diary entries she made after the author's death - the last dated February 25, 1970 - and other fascinating documents, such as Letters to the Next World, a series of letters she had written to her late husband between 1943 and 1955, and her correspondence with Bulgakov's brother Nikolay (1898-1966), who was a bacteriologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, and with her own brother Aleksander Sergeevich Nyurenberg (1890-1964), who was an architect in Berlin.
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