NP Bulgakow

[calbert at hslboxmaster.com]

FOr a very worthwhile elaboration on this theme, check out the 
distaff Pynchon - Cynthia Ozick and The Messiah of Stockholm....

Resurrected Bruno Schultz all by her lonesome....


love,
cfa

> 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. http://lib.ru/BULGAKOW/master97_engl.txt
> 
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