The
Master and Margarita («Ма́стер
и Маргари́та»)
is a 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.
`I am a master.' He grew stern and took from the pocket of his dressing-gown a completely greasy black cap with the letter 'M' embroidered on it in yellow silk. He put this cap on and showed himself to Ivan both in profile and full face, to prove that he was a master. `She sewed it for me with her own hands,' he added mysteriously.
(chapter 13)
'She was carrying repulsive, alarming yellow flowers in her hand. Devil knows what they're called, but for some reason they're the first to appear in Moscow. And these flowers stood out clearly against her black spring coat. She was carrying yellow flowers! Not a nice colour. She turned down a lane from Tverskaya and then looked back. Well, you know Tverskaya! Thousands of people were walking along Tverskaya, but I can assure you that she saw me alone, and looked not really alarmed, but even as if in pain. And I was struck not so much by her beauty as by an extraordinary loneliness in her eyes, such as no one had ever seen before! Obeying this yellow sign, I also turned down the lane and followed her. We walked along the crooked, boring lane silently, I on one side, she on the other. And, imagine, there was not a soul in the lane.
(chapter
13)
The info about the book - (c) wikipedia
The pictures are from the TV-film 'Master and Margarita' (2005) by V.Bortko, from the web-site www.kino-teatr.ru and www.kinopoisk.ru
