My favourite book, I’ve read it a few times over 8 years and each read was a different story which reflected my own evolution : it’s only book I have read that has evolved as i have

@mellisaterisa5411

4 жыл бұрын

Same for me .This book is like the Bible. Master Bulgakov show this -Our Lord said about temptation :for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!"Berlioz tempted Ivan and people to read the story but Ivan the Homeless somehow did a "bad" poem.Berlioz paid for blaspheming God but Ivan felt the unknown power over himself for most of the time repent and refused to write against God anymore

@levs8854

4 жыл бұрын

Mellisa Terisa uhhhhhhhhhh...... yes?

@user-bo8eq7ki5w

Жыл бұрын

My favorite book The grapes of wrath By J.Steinbek. This great amazing super american book ! Stanbek its great american writher ! On all thaimes !!! The reeal wraiter. I m love Djoad family and this story. Im reed and cry . Sorry for my anglish.

Finally, someone pronounces all the names right! Thank you for such an amazing talk about this wonderful book 😊

@pk-fi1ok

3 жыл бұрын

someone who read it in russian, i guessed that helped :)

Just finished this book. Picked it up on a whim at Barnes & Noble while killing some time. Best random book purchase in recent memory

@elizabethmccrery991

3 жыл бұрын

there are 'no random' book purchases

@Dre9six

3 жыл бұрын

@@elizabethmccrery991 a book store in my city has books that are wrapped in paper with only the genre and the recommended age written on the front, still not entirely random but it's close enough 😂

@reeddery4232

2 жыл бұрын

@@elizabethmccrery991 i pick this up just to round about the discount and end up loving it

Unlike most Russian classics, this book is hilarious and not depressing :-)

@HarmonicaGuitar

Жыл бұрын

Это тебе так кажется, что она весёлая. Первое название книги "Евангелие от сатаны".

@user-du1qy6if6k

Жыл бұрын

@@HarmonicaGuitar У них вообще очень неточное видение наших книг.

@achunaryan3418

Жыл бұрын

it has a eerie tone in the background though in a bizarre way.

@clemfarley7257

11 ай бұрын

The Devils is funny

@smokemystogies9063

10 ай бұрын

​@@clemfarley7257also the idiot! Russians aren't always bleak, sometimes they're happily bleak

Fantastic book. It reads cinematically in full blown technicolor!

I go to sleep with this awesome fantasy audiobook and wake up happy 😃

I read it and loved it about 30 years ago. I have recently bought a Folio Society version to re-read and I hope that I can enjoy it just as much and appreciate it even more than on my first reading.

We read this in Hungary. I have read it in both languages.

What a BRILLIANT video!! Thank you Misha for your fantastic inetrpretation, analysis, conetext, images, etc... truly AMAZING.

Two weeks ago I heard a passing remark about this book on KZread. Two days later I was in a small bookstore in Stinson Beach, California looking for some greeting cards and at the checkout counter was a single copy of this book. The owner said it had just arrived that morning. It was a strange coincidence so I grabbed it, of course. I've only read the first two chapters and I'm intrigued.

I like Behemoth's portrayal in the book as a cat embodying a dangerous beast who never dies. Like evil in soviet union.

Great! I can read this book million times ..... Thank you 😊

I love this book.

Thank you for sharing!

Я счастлива, что родилась в такой величайшей стране, где существовали такие гениальные и талантливые люди, такие как Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков! Спасибо Вам за ваш труд! "The Master and Margarita" my favourite book. Thank you!

@estebanspeyer8096

2 жыл бұрын

...and do you think that this lecture honors your country and its culture? I find it a little ... superficial... I'm learning Russian since march and made an goog progress....

@user-mg9by4um1l

2 жыл бұрын

@@estebanspeyer8096 , Позвольте задать вам вопрос. Почему вы решили изучать русский язык?

@user-mg9by4um1l

2 жыл бұрын

@@estebanspeyer8096 .

@user-mg9by4um1l

2 жыл бұрын

@@estebanspeyer8096 , Позвольте задать вам вопрос.

@user-mg9by4um1l

2 жыл бұрын

@@estebanspeyer8096 , Почему вы решили изучать русский язык?

In chapter 13 close to the end of the chapter it says something like "15 minutes after margarita had left the master heard a knock on his window" then there is commotion outside and then the master ends up insane on his front lawn. Is there any hint as to what the knock was? Or what caused him to go over the edge?

@dandan-nx9oj

3 жыл бұрын

Master was arrested. In the next paragraph, when he returns to his house, he is wearing a coat with its buttons torn off (it was a common practice for guards to cut off buttons, hooks, etc. from prisoners' clothing) and realizes that his house has been occupied (while he was in prison.) Of course, Master told Bezdomny that he had gone insane, thus letting the poet decide if he want to believe him or not. Here are two mad men talking about the "sane" reality outside the asylum.

very nice lecture

WHICH TRANSLATION ??? It's at the top of my reading list but I'm not sure which translation to choose. Input from those who have read multiple versions would be appreciated.

Its a book worth reading.

It starts at 3:00

This is such an amazing book, but SO much of it gets lost in translation.

@pk-fi1ok

3 жыл бұрын

how much got lost?

@alexa.5601

3 жыл бұрын

I don't think so (I'm Russian). It's not a poetry, after all...

@estebanspeyer8096

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexa.5601 I'm reading it in both English and Russian, being a Spanish speaker. Surely it's not Pushkin, but you miss some rithm, or the sound of the language , when you read a translation. And the meanings of the words nerver coincide 100%...

@edscmidt5193

Жыл бұрын

@@alexa.5601 good to know, thank you. This is my favorite book and I’d feel weird if my favorite book isnt really the book

I wish I could hear more clearly! The auditor is speaking too softly.

@pk-fi1ok

3 жыл бұрын

and the background voices has been killing me ... i was shouting out in my mind "somebody please get up and kick the f..in people out of the building!" .. lol ... nobody :)))

Can anyone suggest the best translation?

Re: Sympathy, Jagger was inspired by Baudelaire's The Generous Gambler I thought. I could be wrong

What's all the noise in the background? Kinda rude.

Why only two comments?

in parallel, one could recall the repression in the United States in the 1950s (McCarthyism) and the number of repressed,as well as how people suddenly disappeared and the rest were afraid and waited for them to be arrested

Low volume audio

So you never read any other of his books. You thought this book was so amazing, you decided not to read any more of his stuff. Amazing.

@destroyoid

2 жыл бұрын

"I never consciously read any other of his books" like why not just admit you never read them. "I maybe saw some films based on his books"... Made me laugh anyway.

@edscmidt5193

Жыл бұрын

Heart of a Dog is for sure worth a read and an important book, the fatal egg is fun; but the other stuff is meh

@coolfil9

Жыл бұрын

@@edscmidt5193 white guard is fantastic (at least in Russian)

I loved the first parrt which had nothing to do with Margaritas... I think it was an unspoken thing for Russian writers to write two stories at once and release them in daily newspapers. That's how writers earned their living back then The first part obviously became very very popular, but the 2nd part is just melodramatic afterthought...

Egyszer volt hol nem volt egy író, aki Kijevben született és Moszkvában halt meg és oroszul írt!

For a second I thought it was Jason Blaha presenting The Master and Margarita 😂

@matthewcasagrande231

Жыл бұрын

Blahino reading a book…..😂🤣😂🤣😂

@Signal_in_the_noise

Жыл бұрын

A man of taste I see

📍32:43 2📍14:18

Yes literature and art of old is by a lot replaced with TV and Film. Unfortunately the later is very passive and not very thought provoking because it is visual and does not hit the brain circuits as well as The Word.

The idea that Bulgakov was facing death for writing this book is assinine given that Stalin himself enjoyed his work and that to publish anything you would have to go through the aformentioned literary union which would simply reject your work as it has done to him before for works way more on the nose than The Master and Margarita. Bulgakov's past involvements in the white army and his lingering disapproval of the bolsheviks were both known but his life was never threatened for it, why claim writing meant death?

@Damascene749

Жыл бұрын

True, I think the speaker had a pretty surface level understanding of Bulgakov’s life. His life was never really under threat but he had to live in constant frustration because the ongoing censorship of his book and plays that he wrote.

@rolandowagner7775

Жыл бұрын

Do you folks not understand that anyone of prominence is in danger under iron fisted dictatorships, and any perceived criticisms of the regime can get you killed/disappeared very easily? That tension is actually portrayed in the novel. You acknowledge that Bulgakov dealt with ongoing frustration and censorship, but you don't think he was in any danger? That's pretty naive, don't you think? He did die at a young age- maybe stress has something to do with this? You do know Stalin's regime killed many million, yes?

It's a great book but I've been wondering why it's so popular in Russia these days? I mean - Russia nowadays is although not Soviet Union anymore, but still quite under a totalitarian regime. Majority of Russians regretted the fall of the Soviet Union, but Bulgakov was on the white side back in the time. I met a pro Putin Russian girl who loves this book much and it to me is so ironic. I think there must be something I don't know? Sorry for my ignorance. I am very curious about it and hope anyone can explain it to me

@sodomizer3852

19 күн бұрын

There is always something you don't know.

The meaning of the book is that you can not interpet the New Testament like you want, without geting into a sin. The book, which Master have written, distorts the immage of Jesus. That attracts Satan into his life. Satan celebrates a small victory in Moscow. Therefore at the end of the novel, Master died and can not be accepted by heavens. Bulgakov was son of the priest and consealed religiuos philosophy in his book. By the way it is about present times, when people in churches are too far from the original cannons.

I might be wrong but convinced the first chapters were written to pass by communist censure before publishing (?)

@mellisaterisa5411

4 жыл бұрын

You are not wrong this is true .We are not able to imagine about Master Bulgakov fight with censorship

@theserror

4 жыл бұрын

Don't try to make this novel an anti-soviet propaganda, which is not.

@icytoe

4 жыл бұрын

Sargon First hum. No. Sargon First. Just putting into context a possible explanation for the first chapters. My father lived during hard communism. It’s far from fun. It was not anti just a way to share literature. Freedom of expression did not exist (has anything has changed today...) not sure you realise how repressive. Without the first chapter you wouldn’t have read the book

@icytoe

4 жыл бұрын

Sargon First do you know that Russia finally allowed a statue of Bulgakov only 5 years ago

@zoranpantic7419

3 жыл бұрын

​@@icytoe I lived during communism and I don't find it any more oppressive than society I live in today. While you could not protest communist party openly, I dare you protest "pride parade" or some other PC virtue publicly today. Tell me later what happens to your status as employee and if your "friends" are still talking to you.

Lars Vilks

А по русски

Забавно слышать размышление западных литераторов по русской классике. Искусство не имеет границ.

Какая-то политическая антисоветская чушь. Книга не об этом.

third

@pk-fi1ok

3 жыл бұрын

and the third place goes to tatjana ... big aplaus :)))

Say "right" one more time. I dare you.

@pk-fi1ok

3 жыл бұрын

right .. i guess? lol :))) & sorry ;)

@mikef2813

2 жыл бұрын

Right now?

@listenup2882

Жыл бұрын

Sometimes right is all that's left.

Too simple for good review. This Misha knows almost nothing about Bulgakov and his books. And he speaks about them... Very american style.

@edscmidt5193

Жыл бұрын

Enlighten me, what’s American style?

Bro you mostly talking about soviet union than book itself..

@pk-fi1ok

3 жыл бұрын

he says he didn't want to spoil it for you. yes, for you, namely ... lol

@SK-co9mr

3 жыл бұрын

It's important context to understand the content better.

@rolandowagner7775

Жыл бұрын

The book is really about Stalinist Russia if one reads between the lines and interprets the allegorical subtext. Why do you think there was such time and hesitancy to finish and publish it?

Had to leave a dislike that I will not rescind even if the rest of the video is good because he takes 14, THAT'S FOURTEEN minutes, to start talking about the damn book.

@ChattyAbbi

2 жыл бұрын

Good to know