Book-Cafe in the RLC: Reading Russian books with the Russian Language Center

Russian Language Center is happy to announce the next book-cafe. On the 21 of May (Tuesday) we discuss 'Master and Margarita' by Mikhail Bulgakov!

        It's a special event for the book-cafe as we dare to discuss this interesting book, full of mystery, contradictions and love!

        If you are interested in participating in this event please e-mail us to 2teacher@rlc.hk by the 15th of April  to sign up and we shall send you further information.

The Master and Margarita («Ма́стер и Маргари́та») is a 1937 (not published until 1967) novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, woven around the premise of a visit by the Devil to the fervently atheistic Soviet Union. Many critics consider it to be one of the best novels of the 20th century, and the foremost of Soviet satires, directed against a suffocatingly bureaucratic social order.

Find the book in English here  

Find the book in Russian here  

The book with parallel Russian and English text is here 

Here you may find information about the book and useful annotations to the chapters  (English, Russian, French and Dutch languages available) 

Following this reference you may watch the tv-series ‘Master and Margarita’ (10 episodes), Russian film of 2005, it is very ‘close’ to the text. 

Looking forward to meet you …аnd remember: ‘manuscripts don’t burn…!’