“The Arrow… Flies On”

Abstract

Excerpts from student essays on Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita in the two decades following the collapse of the Soviet Union are cited and discussed.

Notes

English translation © Taylor & Francis, from the Russian text © Voprosy literatury, ‘Strela… prodolzhaet letet’: Master i Margarita M. Bulgakova v uchebnoj auditorii i za ee predelami, Voprosy literatury, no. 3 (2014), pp. 353–66. Translated by Liv Bliss. Translation reprinted from Russian Studies in Literature, vol. 51, no. 3. doi: 10.1080/10611975.2015.1071640.

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^2. Igor’ Vinogradov, Zaveshchanie mastera. Dukhovnye iskaniia russkoi literatury (Moscow: Russkii put’, 2005), pp. 253–96.

^3. Archpriest Mikhail Ardov, Prochtenie romana. Vozvrashchenie na Ordynku: Vospominaniia. Publitsistika (St. Petersburg: Inapress, 1998), pp. 153–69.

^4. Archpriest A. Men’, Trudnyi put’ k dialogu: Sbornik (Moscow: Raduga, 1992), p. 94.

^5. Ardov, Prochtenie romana, pp. 153–69.

^6. Alla Bossart, “Dobryi chelovek iz Ershalaima,” Novaia gazeta, 2005, no. 96.

^7. Vinogradov, Zaveshchanie mastera, pp. 253–96.

^8. “Ia ved’ tol'ko instrument: Iz pisem o. Aleksandra Menia,” Russkaia mysl’, September 13, 1991.

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^10. Ardov, Prochtenie romana, pp. 153–69.

^11. Vinogradov, Zaveshchanie mastera, pp. 253–69.

^12. V.M. Akimov, Svet khudozhnika, ili Mikhail Bulgakov protiv D'iavoliady (Moscow: Narodnoe obrazovanie/Bibliotechka zhurnala, 1995). [http://samlib.ru/a/akimow_wladimir_mihajlowich/akimov.shtml, accessed February 2015—Trans.]

^13. Vinogradov, Zaveshchanie mastera, pp. 253–96.

^14. D.S. Likhachev, Pis'ma o dobrom i prekrasnom (Moscow: Detskaia literatura, 1988).