THE MASTER AND MARGARITA

Damage Control

THE SETTING: PATRIARCHS PONDS

Associated with older

church, its

wealth, authority

Berlioz is

confident, urbane

Argues for the non-

existence of Christ

Cites anthropological

studies, philosophy

CONVERSATION WITH WOLAND

Learned, polished,

suave

Alludes to

conversations with

Kant

Clearly a foreigner but

speaks Russian

perfectly

Charlie Stone, illus

PREDICTING BELIOZ’S DEATH

Woland wittily points out that Belioz will die at the hand of a woman, a Komsomol.

Ivan suggests he (W) is mental

Woland points out that Ivan will soon be acquainted with an asylum

The role of the sunflower oil and Annushka

Illus Irian shipovskaya

Photo Clinton Portis

THE SEVENTH PROOF

Berlioz is an athiest, a

nay-sayer

Denies existence of the

devil as well

Plans to call for

Foreign office

regarding the

mysterious stranger

Notices the stranger in

checkers before

accident

PONTIUS PILATE

Bulgakov is faithful to

historic details but

deliberately omits

some

He portrays Yeshua as

a wandering healer,

philosopher, seeking

dialogue and meals

with the public

Pilate is self-indulgent,

conflicted

THE CHASE

Ivan panics, notes the

checkered citizen with

the cracked prinz-nez

As he tries to get

away, he notes the Cat.

The threesome leave the

park.

Comic scene of the cat

on the tram

Bulgakov’s predilection

for fantasy, carnival

BEHEMOTH AND IVAN

ILLUSTRATION BY CHARLIE STONE

THE CHASE (CONT.)

Ivan moves toward Arbat Square and hopes to find MA in his apartment #47 in house #13

Instead he accidentally confronts a naked woman in her bath

He then swims across the Moscow river , half naked, at a site known for baptisms

DOINGS AT GRIBOEDOV’S

Members of Masolit

waiting for

Berlioz, perturbed, cyni

cal

Carnival

atomsphere, misrule

prevails

Illustrations-shipovskaya

Shipovskaya

DOINGS AT GRIBOEDOV’S

Ivan is carried out

and

Transported to the

psychiatric clinic

Ilustration by C.

Stone

SCHIZOPHRENIA, AS WAS SAID

Ivan H is sent to asyllum

News of Berlioz horrifies but appearance of Ivan H confounds

Ivan is subdued and sedated at asylum

More composed in Chap. 8, he requests writing materials

VIEW FROM IVAN’S WINDOW IN THE CLINIC

A NAUGHTY APARTMENT

Illustration by Charlie

Stone

THE NAUGHTY APARTMENT

Berlioz’s apartment, shared with Likhodeev, is transformed

A naked lady along with the threesome are present.

They eject L. to make room for Woland’s retinue

Foster the notion that Likhodeev was hung over.L ends up in Yalta.

Illustration: Alimov

KOROVIEV’S STUNTS

He and his kind had much power because of scarce living space in Moscow

Bribe-taking and influence peddling

Nikanor IvanovichBosoy (barefoot) head of tenants’ association.

Nikanor is pressed to take the money, then busted by authorities

NEWS FROM YALTA

Variety staff awaits

word.

Attempted

communiques from

Likhodeev

Varenukha confront’s

man with cat-like

physiognomy

It ends poorly for him-

beaten in toilet

IVAN SPLITS IN TWO

Ivan unsuccessfully

tries to write an

account of events

leading to his

detainment

Found weeping he is

given an injection and

begins to acquiesce

BLACK MAGIC AND ITS EXPOSURE

Tricks with cards and

money

Conversation with

Woland and Fagott

Theater manager

Bengalsky intervenes-

explaining mass

hypnosis-asks Woland

for exposure

B’s head is torn off,

then replaced

BLACK MAGIC

Mad frenzy results when women are invited to look through latest fashions is clothes, purses shoes.

Arkady Apllonovichrequests exposure

He is exposed, instead, in front of his wife, dignitaries

All vanishes

THE HERO ENTERS

While in a reposeful rest, Ivan meets a fellow inmate who validates his experiences

He is the author of a novel involving Pontius Pilate

Describes writing the novel and Margarita

Rebukes the harsh treatment of critics

THE HERO ENTERS

ILLUSTRATION BY I. SHIPOVSKAIA

GLORY TO THE COCK

Terriftying experience

for Findirector, Rimsky

Saved from demonic

destruction by crowing

of the cock (3 times)

He takes off to leave

Moscow forever

His wife and

colleagues mytsified

NIKANOR IVANOVICH’S DREAM

Most of this chapter was censored upon first publication—hoarding currency

Varying tone of compassion and menace

Exposure of personal lives, secrets

Guilt and punishment

Note on Pushkin’s popularity

THE EXECUTION

Physcial stress

emphasized:

heat, dryness, dust, bugb

ites

Yeshua and other

prisoners helped to death

Matthew Levy arrives

late, embittered, rebelliou

s

Measures taken to

obvious miraculous

claims for body

EXECUTION ILLUS CHARLIE STONE

AN UNQUIET DAY

Anxiety and rumors fly about after the black magic performance

Administrators can find no contract, ticket sales associated with the performance.

Rumors of money that disintegrated

Secy tells of black cat in office

Workers sing in chorus involuntarily

Satire focused on

worker clubs under

Soviet regime

HAPLESS VISITORS

Arrival of Berlioz’s uncle from Kiev-Poplavsky

Strange telegram speaking in present tense

No managers will offer to deal with him

He enters the apartment alone

Greeted by Koroviev who weeps profusely at the thought of Berlioz’s death

Cat admits to sending the telegram, reads the passport

Azazello runs out and pushes Poplavsky and his things down the stairs

The Barman comes about the ruble notes-predictions about liver cancer—off to clinic

The Professor and the sparrow

BOOK IIFollow me, Reader. . .

MARGARITA

Margarita Nicolaevna-30-year old wife of prominent specialist

Her affair with the master

Nurtured and supported his work

Approached by Azzelloin Alexandrovskygardens

Uses the cream to become invisible

MARGARITA’S FLIGHT (AZAZELLO’S CREAM)

Her maid tries some

and follows (Natasha)

Her would be suitor

Nicolai Ivanovich does

also (appearing as a

hog)

Margarita’s revenge on

the Dramlit House and

the critic Latunsky

Elite Writers Building

BY CANDLELIGHT

Margarita meets the retinue

Agrees to host the satanic ball

Chess game with Behemoth

Woland’s hurt leg is tended by Gella—naked

woman and a vampire

Abaddon (destruction, angel of death) appears

before the group and scares Margarita

Appears as old man with glasses

GRAND BALL AT SATAN’S

Margarita wears

portrait of poodle and

diamond crown

Treated with great

deference

Description of Ball

derives from embassy

ball attended by

Bulgakovs at Spaso

House in 1935

EVENTS AT THE BALL:

Meeting with Frieda (history similar to Gretchen-haunted by child’s death)

Other cameos of famous murderers and murderesses

Baron Miegel—stool pidgeon and spy—he is killed on the spot—his blood turned into wine

EXTRACTION OF THE MASTER

Playful repartee with

Woland and Retinue

Margarita requests

mercy for Frieda and

restoration of the

Master to the

apartment on the Arbat

Master is revived with

difficulty

They are restored to

the basement

apartment

New resident is taken

out.

HOW THE PROCURATOR TRIED TO SAVE

JUDAS OF KIRIATH AND THE BURIAL

Story of the pursuit and

murder of Judas of

Kiriath

Attempt to make it

appear as a suicide

Evidence left for chief

priest

Pilate confronts

Mathew Levy

Admits to killing Judas

THE END OF APARTMENT 50

Various attempts to

investigate strange

doings

Incident with Behemoth

Shot at with bullets, no

one wounded

Ilus by charlie Stone

LAST ADVENTURES OF KOROVIEV AND

BEHEMOTH

Comic satire about

officialdom and other

aspects of Soviet life:

Stores, exclusive

restaurants, official

investigations

Photo of Bulgakov’s

primus stove

Graffiti showing

Behmoth with stove

THE FATE OF MASTER AND MARGARITA IS

DECIDED AND IT’S TIME, IT’S TIME

Mathew Levi approaches Woland’s domain

Requests “peace” for M and M from Yeshua

M and M living in basement apartment

Visited by Azazello

They drink the Falernian wine and are translated

Their “deaths” are made to look normal in Moscow

scene

The apartment is left in flames

They visit Ivanuska at the clinic before departing.

ON SPARROW HILLS AND FORGIVENESS AND

ETERNAL REFUGE

Woland and his retinue prepare to depart to higher realms with M and M

Behmoth’s whistle

Koroviev-Fagott and Behemoth assume their original forms.

The master forgives Pilate who seeks Yeshua

M and M find rest in their eternal home c.stone--

EPILOGUE

Explanations and Normalcy

Some things never change—in officaldom

Ivan is older and wiser, but he suffers every spring

when the moon is full—reliving all that followed his

encounter with Woland.

CREDITS

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