NP: The Master and Margarita

[Mark Kohut]

And it inspired Mick Jagger into some Sympathy......

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 5:51 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think it is ripe for a film interpretation.  I think it is almost an
> automatic screenplay. Its scope might need editing, but it's imagery is
> like a graphic novel.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 4:43 PM Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Sup y'all.
>>
>> I'm rereading this book--P&V translation--and am gratified that it's as
>> great as I remembered it. I can't recall if I've seen it get any love
>> around here, but I really recommend. It's a brilliant book. A masterpiece,
>> I think, if you traffic in this most ridiculous of hyperboles.
>>
>> Also, I'd put more money than I actually possess (this isn't saying much)
>> on Pynchon having read it probably before writing *Gravity's Rainbow*,
>> and definitely before *M&D *comes out (first English trans. of *TMaM* comes
>> out in I think '67, albeit with 60pp cut out). There are a lot of small
>> details and moments and atmospheres along the way that make me think this.
>> But anyway, here's translator Richard Pevear in his intro to my copy: "The
>> mobile but personal narrative voice of the novel, the closest model for
>> which Bulgakov may have found in Gogol's *Dead Souls, *is the perfect
>> medium for this continuous verbal construction. There is no multiplicity of
>> narrators in the novel. The voice is always the same. But it has unusual
>> range, picking up, parodying, or ironicaly undercutting the tones of the
>> novel's many characters, with undertones of lyric and epic poetry and old
>> popular tales."
>>
>> At the very least I submit that a young Pynchon would've found some
>> spirituo-aesthetic kinship in Bulgakov. Lotsa paranoia round these parts.
>>
>> If you haven't read, I urge.
>>
>
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