NP Bulgakow

[Otto]

Two aphorisms detachable from the novel may suggest
something of the complex  nature of this freedom and  how it may have struck
the novel's first readers. One is the much-quoted 'Manuscripts  don't burn',
which  seems  to  express  an  absolute  trust  in  the triumph  of  poetry,
imagination, the  free word,  over terror  and oppression,  and  could  thus
become a watchword  of the intelligentsia. The publication of The Master and
Margarita was taken as a proof of the assertion. In fact, during a moment of
fear early in his work on the novel,  Bulgakov did burn what he had written.
And yet, as we see, it refused to stay burned. This moment of fear, however,
brings me to the second aphorism - 'Cowardice is the most terrible of vices'
- which  is repeated with slight variations several times in the novel.
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