The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

‘What is this novel about?’ ‘It is a novel about ...

Let me see it.’ Woland held out his hand, palm up. ‘Unfortunately, I cannot do that,’ replied the master, ‘because I burned it in the stove.’ ‘Forgive me, but I don’t believe you,’ Woland replied, ‘that cannot be:

manuscripts don’t burn.’

‘Well, it’s all clear now,’ said Woland, tapping the manuscript with a long finger. ‘Perfectly clear,’ confirmed the cat,

At once there dropped from the ceiling on to the floor a bewildered and nearly delirious citizen in nothing but his underwear,

‘Aloisy Mogarych,’

Margarita, with a howl of ‘Know a witch when you see one!’, sank her nails into Aloisy Mogarych’s face.

‘the whitewashing alone ... the vitriol...’

‘are you that same cat, sir, who got on the tram?’ ‘I am,’ the flattered cat confirmed

For some reason, cats are usually addressed familiarly, though no cat has ever drunk bruderchaft with anyone.’

Haha

‘It seems to me that you’re not so much a cat ...’

‘No papers, no person,’ Koroviev said with satisfaction.

These changes are permanent? Question

Aloisy Mogarych?’

‘What you say is true,’ the master observed, struck by the neatness of Koroviev’s work, ‘that if there are no papers, there’s no person. I have no papers, so there’s precisely no me.’

‘Sooner let my paws wither than touch what belongs to others,’ the cat exclaimed,

Haha he’s a looter, ch. 29 p.

‘Domestics know everything,’ observed the cat, raising a paw significantly. ‘It’s a mistake to think they’re blind.’

Haha they are in Jane Austen

I won’t marry an engineer or a technician! Yesterday at the ball Monsieur Jacques proposed to me.‘

‘We don’t put dates, with a date the document becomes invalid,’

Varenukha

‘Which Rimsky?

Haha

‘Now all of you leave me alone with them,’ ordered Woland, pointing to the master and Margarita.

‘I’m broken, I’m bored, and I want to be in the basement.’

then why not start portraying, say, this Aloisy...’

‘She’ll see reason, she’ll leave me ...’ ‘I doubt that,’ Woland said through his teeth

I whispered the most tempting thing to him. And he refused.’

a small golden horseshoe studded with diamonds.

Will it remain?

‘Oh, God, I’ve lost the horseshoe!’

What had happened was the following:

Narrator!

that same Annushka

Haha misfortune indeed

wherever she was or wherever she appeared, a scandal would at once break out, and, besides,

Annushka the Plague

‘Where’s the devil taking you

the window had been broken by the economist’s foot,

It only remained to suppose that a sleepy and strange person had flown out of the house like a bird,

Haha

a slightly piggish face,

in a Tolstoy blouse,

she was inquisitive

Haha

The lady was possibly barefoot, possibly wearing some sort of transparent, obviously imported, shoes that were torn to shreds.

Everything in Annushka’s soul sang in anticipation of what she was going to tell the neighbours the next day.

Haha

Annushka slipped like a snake

Simile

from devil knows where

Hella exchanged smacking kisses with Margarita,

the other lights on sleepless and noisy Sadovaya.

Margarita sat and wept quietly from the shock she had experienced and from happiness.

A terrible thought suddenly swept over her, that this was all sorcery, that the notebooks would presently disappear from sight,

Yes, Ji thoujght so tooj

Nothing disappeared, the all-powerful Woland really was all powerful,

How the Procurator Tried to Save Judas of Kiriath

the dread Antonia Tower

the Hasmonaean Palace

Yersh...