He throws his valise down the stairs, beats him with a huge roast chicken, and throws both Poplavsky and the chicken down the stairs as well. The fact that he speaks totally discombobulates Poplavsky.īehemoth demands Poplavsky's passport, rejects it, and calls in Azazello, who tells Poplavsky to leave at once. Behemoth is also there, in the form of a cat, and claims that it was he who sent Poplavsky the telegram. There he is greeted by Koroviev, who feigns devastation at Berlioz's death. Another man enters and the two leave together, so Poplavsky heads up to apartment Number 50 himself. 302-b Sadovaya on Friday afternoon, but the man who greets him cannot answer him when he asks for the chairman. He arrives at the office of the house management of No. Maxamilian Andreyevich hurries to Moscow not to attend his nephew's funeral, but because he is interested in inheriting the now vacant apartment on Sadovaya in Moscow. However, it's not possible to date the timeline of the Moscow part of the novel.Maxamilian Andreyevich Poplavsky, Berlioz's uncle, is arriving in Moscow from Kiev after receiving a confusing telegram from Berlioz, stating that he had just been run over. Barkov believes that the year of Gorky's death (1936) is the time of the events in the "Master and Margarita". Īccording to Barkov, one of Master's prototypes was Maxim Gorky - the most well-known proletarian writer. Most scholars find the Master character hugely autobiographical: Mikhail Bulgakov burnt the first variant of his novel, and even after rewriting it, he realized that it was next to impossible to publish such an unorthodox book in the USSR.Īlfred Barkov offers an alternative interpretation of the Master character: "the ominous meaning (of the term "master" ) becomes evident if you realize that the System used it to define the writers who were ready to choke their ambitions and create something that it wants". In the case of Bulgakov's character, Master opposes the socialist realism. In both Russian and world literature Master became the epitome of the artist, the author, who opposes the official culture of his time. In the novel his name is written without capitalizing the first letter. His own answer to the question is: "I don't have a last name". He gets back the burnt manuscript and gives the Master and his beloved Margarita a place for eternal serenity and retreat. Woland became interested in the story of the Master's novel. After the investigation Master was freed but, having nowhere to live, no money and no purpose in life, he decided to find refuge in a mental hospital. The same newspaper criticisms gave one of the Master's acquaintances, Aloiziy Mogarych, the idea to write a false report to the authorities to seize Master's apartment. After a lot of harassment he gradually went mad and at the moment of despair burned his novel. His first attempt to publish it, however, caused a barrage of criticism from professional writers in the press. Master is a Muscovite, a former historian and a highly educated person who speaks several foreign languages.Īfter winning a large sum of money in the lottery he decided to fully dedicate himself to writing a novel about Pontius Pilate and the last days in life of Yeshua Ha-Nozri. Master (Russian: Ма́стер) is a fictional character from the novel The Master and Margarita by the Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov.
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