How to Read 'The Master and Margarita' by Mikhail Bulgakov

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0:00 how to read The Master and Margarita
1:52 secret writing, censorship & publication
4:17 ‘manuscripts don’t burn’
5:16 why tyrannical regimes ban books
5:55 Bulgakov burns his first draft
7:00 the power of allegorical literature
8:20 how to appreciate great satire
9:00 Russian vs Western readers
10:00 the writer’s life in the Soviet Union
13:00 Bulgakov’s struggle with addiction
14:00 atheism & visions of the devil
15:00 ‘A Country Doctor’s Notebook’
15:30 Bulgakov’s favourite writers
16:55 opening of The Master and Margarita
18:20 Berlioz, Homeless & Massolit
18:50 on the Soviet literary scene
20:00 understanding socialist realism
20:50 the battle of art vs propaganda
22:00 terror in the Soviet Union
23:20 Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago
24:50 why writers would disappear
26:00 most dangerous writer in Moscow
27:20 interrogated by the secret police
29:15 Stalin loves Bulgakov’s play
30:00 banned, censored & abused
30:50 the writer’s wish to leave the USSR
31:30 Bulgakov falls in love with Elena
33:00 Bulgakov burns his manuscript
34:30 Stalin’s phone call with Bulgakov
37:00 on tyrannical control of art
39:40 Bulgakov’s visions of the devil
40:30 relationship between good & evil
41:20 epigraph for The Master and Margarita
41:50 in the influence of Goethe’s Faust
43:00 making a deal with the devil
43:55 the character of Professor Woland
44:45 debating the historicity of Jesus
45:55 the devil’s fantastical retinue
46:55 Bulgakov’s three narrative strands
49:45 the novel’s different aesthetic styles
51:00 Jesus/Yeshua & Pontius Pilate
52:30 Bulgakov’s defamiliarisation
54:00 which translation should you read?
58:25 recommended pace for Bulgakov
1:02:15 exciting book club discussions
1:03:20 your experience with Bulgakov?
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