{"id":1109,"date":"2010-07-12T17:02:53","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T17:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/?p=1109"},"modified":"2010-07-12T17:02:53","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T17:02:53","slug":"reading-master-margarita-chapter-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/reading-master-margarita-chapter-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading \u00ab\u041c\u0430\u0441\u0442\u0435\u0440 \u0438 \u041c\u0430\u0440\u0433\u0430\u0440\u0438\u0442\u0430\u00bb: Chapter 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It doesn\u2019t really feel like \u00ab<\/strong><\/em>\u043b\u0435<\/span>\u0442\u043e\u00bb<\/em><\/strong> [summer] until you\u2019ve spent an entire afternoon doing nothing but the following simultaneously: \u00ab<\/strong><\/em>\u043b\u0435\u0436\u0430<\/span>\u0442\u044c <\/em><\/strong>\u0432 <\/em><\/strong>\u0442\u0440\u0430\u0432\u0435<\/span>\u00bb<\/em><\/strong> [to lie in the grass], \u00ab<\/strong><\/em>\u043f\u0438\u0442\u044c <\/em><\/strong>\u0445\u043e\u043b\u043e<\/span>\u0434\u043d\u043e\u0435 <\/em><\/strong>\u043c\u043e\u043b\u043e\u043a\u043e<\/span>\u00bb<\/em><\/strong> [to drink cold milk] and \u00ab<\/strong><\/em>\u0447\u0438\u0442\u0430<\/span>\u0442\u044c <\/em><\/strong>\u0411\u0443\u043b\u0433\u0430<\/span>\u043a\u043e\u0432\u0430\u00bb<\/em><\/strong> [to read Bulgakov]. \u00ab<\/strong><\/em>\u0420\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0438<\/span>\u044f\u00bb<\/em><\/strong> [Russia] is a wonderful country in many, many ways \u2013 but during my six years there I wasn\u2019t able to find and buy milk \u00ab<\/strong><\/em>\u0431\u0435\u0437 <\/em><\/strong>\u043b\u0430\u043a\u0442\u043e<\/span>\u0437\u044b\u00bb<\/em><\/strong> [without lactose]. Thus \u00ab<\/strong><\/em>\u0428\u0432\u0435<\/span>\u0446\u0438\u044f\u00bb<\/em><\/strong> [Sweden] is the better choice for anybody allergic to dairy\u2026 <\/em><\/p>\n

If we keep up this\u00a0slow pace that we\u2019ve been reading our way through \u00ab<\/strong>\u041c\u0430<\/span>\u0441\u0442\u0435\u0440 <\/strong>\u0438 <\/strong>\u041c\u0430\u0440\u0433\u0430\u0440\u0438<\/span>\u0442\u0430\u00bb<\/strong> [\u201cThe Master & Margarita\u201d] since our start in June \u2013 one chapter per week – I suspect we\u2019ll finish it only in time for \u00ab<\/strong>\u0420\u043e\u0436\u0434\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e<\/span> <\/strong>\u0438 <\/strong>\u041d\u043e<\/span>\u0432\u044b\u0439 <\/strong>\u0433\u043e\u0434\u00bb<\/strong> [Christmas and New Year]. But who\u2019s in any rush? Maybe being a \u00ab<\/strong>\u0442\u043e<\/span>\u0440\u043c\u043e\u0437\u00bb<\/strong> [1.<\/strong> brake; 2.<\/strong> fig.<\/em> brake, drag; hindrance, obstacle] \u2013 a noun made from the verb \u00ab<\/strong>\u0442\u043e\u0440\u043c\u043e\u0437\u0438<\/span>\u0442\u044c\u00bb<\/strong> [impfv.<\/em> 1.<\/strong> to brake, to apply the brakes; 2.<\/strong> fig.<\/em> to hinder, hamper, impede, retard] (or maybe the other way around: the verb was made from the noun \u2013 \u00ab<\/strong><\/em>\u043a\u0442\u043e <\/em><\/strong>\u0437\u043d\u0430<\/span>\u0435\u0442?\u00bb<\/em><\/strong> [who knows?])<\/em> \u2013 isn\u2019t necessarily a bad thing when it comes to us and \u00ab<\/strong>\u0433\u043e\u0441\u043f\u043e\u0434\u0438<\/span>\u043d <\/strong>\u043f\u0438\u0441\u0430<\/span>\u0442\u0435\u043b\u044c <\/strong>\u0411\u0443\u043b\u0433\u0430<\/span>\u043a\u043e\u0432\u00bb<\/strong> [\u2018mister writer Bulgakov\u2019 (P.S. I think it is safe to say that I\u2019m being ironic when I call \u00ab<\/strong><\/em>\u041c\u0438\u0445\u0430\u0438<\/span>\u043b <\/em><\/strong>\u0410\u0444\u0430\u043d\u0430<\/span>\u0441\u044c\u0435\u0432\u0438\u0447\u00bb<\/em><\/strong> that \u2013 do not take after my reckless behavior! Stick with \u00ab<\/strong><\/em>\u0438<\/span><\/em><\/strong>\u043c\u044f <\/em><\/strong>\u0438 <\/em><\/strong>\u043e<\/span><\/em><\/strong>\u0442\u0447\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e\u00bb<\/em><\/strong> [name and patronymic] if you want to show proper \u00ab<\/strong><\/em>\u0443\u0432\u0430\u0436\u0435<\/span>\u043d\u0438\u0435\u00bb<\/em><\/strong> [respect] and no irony at all)<\/em>? Maybe our slow pace will as a matter of fact help us to learn even more along than road? Maybe taking things slow isn\u2019t simply clich\u00e9 or something people say when they\u2019re dating someone but not really that interested, but pretty good advice? \u00a0Once again, \u00ab<\/strong>\u043a\u0442\u043e <\/strong>\u0437\u043d\u0430<\/span>\u0435\u0442?\u00bb<\/strong> [who knows?] \u2013 only those who stick it out until the end will know for sure! Here to guide you through \u00ab<\/strong>\u0433\u043b\u0430\u0432\u0430<\/span> 6 (<\/strong>\u0448\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0430<\/span>\u044f): <\/strong>\u0428\u0438\u0437\u043e\u0444\u0440\u0435\u043d\u0438<\/span>\u044f, <\/strong>\u043a\u0430\u043a <\/strong>\u0438 <\/strong>\u0431\u044b<\/span>\u043b\u043e <\/strong>\u0441\u043a\u0430<\/span>\u0437\u0430\u043d\u043e\u00bb <\/strong>[chapter 6: Schizophrenia, as had been said] is a woman who has made a habit of calling herself \u00ab<\/strong>\u0442\u043e<\/span>\u0440\u043c\u043e\u0437 <\/strong>\u0438 <\/strong>\u043b\u043e\u0445\u00bb <\/strong>[\u2018a drag and a nerd\u2019] before anyone else does it. What does that have to do with today\u2019s chapter in the novel? you might be asking yourself. Well, it has everything to do with it because today\u2019s post will be all about \u00ab<\/strong>\u0440\u0443\u0433\u0430<\/span>\u0442\u044c\u00bb<\/strong> [imfv., here:<\/em> to call names] in Russian. The perfect \u2018friend\u2019<\/em> of this verb in this meaning is \u00ab<\/strong>\u043e\u0431\u0440\u0443\u0433\u0430<\/span>\u0442\u044c\u00bb<\/strong> [pfv.<\/em> 1.<\/strong> to curse out, call names; 2.<\/strong> colloq.<\/em> to criticize, attack, pan]. Why is that important? you wonder. Because chapter 6 is the chapter where \u00ab<\/strong>\u0418\u0432\u0430<\/span>\u043d <\/strong>\u041d\u0438\u043a\u043e\u043b\u0430<\/span>\u0435\u0432\u0438\u0447 <\/strong>\u0411\u0435\u0437\u0434\u043e<\/span>\u043c\u043d\u044b\u0439 <\/strong>\u043e\u0431\u0440\u0443\u0433\u0430<\/span>\u043b <\/strong>\u0434\u043e<\/span>\u043a\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0430 <\/strong>\u0438 <\/strong>\u043f\u043e\u044d<\/span>\u0442\u0430 <\/strong>\u0420\u044e<\/span>\u0445\u0438\u043d\u0430\u00bb <\/strong>[Ivan Nikolaevich \u2018Homeless\u2019<\/em> called the doctor and the poet Ryukhin names] \u00ab<\/strong>\u0432 <\/strong>\u0434\u043e<\/span>\u043c\u0435 <\/strong><\/a>\u0441\u043a\u043e<\/span>\u0440\u0431\u0438<\/a>\u00bb<\/strong> [in \u2018the house of grief\/sorrow\u2019<\/a>].<\/p>\n

From the previous chapter you might remember that everybody\u2019s favorite poet, famous under the pseudonym \u2018Homeless\u2019<\/em>, turned up one evening in May in the literary organization\u2019s restaurant wearing nothing but underpants, all the while holding an icon and a light candle in front of him. Everyone is was rather surprised and wondered \u00ab<\/strong>\u0447\u0442\u043e <\/strong>\u0441\u043b\u0443\u0447\u0438<\/span>\u043b\u043e\u0441\u044c\u00bb<\/strong> [what had happened]. Berlioz had been killed and Ivan was of course on the hunt after the man who did it \u2013 the \u00ab<\/strong>\u0438\u043d\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0440\u0430<\/span>\u043d\u0435\u0446\u00bb<\/strong> [foreigner] who \u00ab<\/strong>\u043f\u0440\u0435\u0434\u0432\u0438<\/span>\u0434\u0435\u043b <\/strong>\u0441\u043c\u0435\u0440\u0442\u044c <\/strong>\u0411\u0435\u0440\u043b\u0438\u043e<\/span>\u0437\u0430\u00bb<\/strong> [foresaw Berlioz\u2019s death], \u00ab<\/strong>\u0437\u043d\u0430\u043b <\/strong>\u041f\u043e<\/span>\u043d\u0442\u0438\u044f <\/strong>\u041f\u0438\u043b\u0430<\/span>\u0442\u0430 <\/strong>\u043b\u0438<\/span>\u0447\u043d\u043e\u00bb<\/strong> [knew Pontius Pilate personally] and regretted that he didn\u2019t ask what \u00ab<\/strong>\u0448\u0438\u0437\u043e\u0444\u0440\u0435\u043d\u0438<\/span>\u044f\u00bb <\/strong>[schizophrenia] was\u2026 Ivan didn\u2019t get any help with that, instead he was sent by his literary colleagues to the \u00ab<\/strong>\u0437\u043d\u0430\u043c\u0435\u043d\u0438<\/span>\u0442\u0430\u044f <\/strong>\u043f\u0441\u0438\u0445\u0438\u0430\u0442\u0440\u0438<\/span>\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043a\u0430\u044f <\/strong>\u043a\u043b\u0438<\/span>\u043d\u0438\u043a\u0430\u00bb<\/strong> [famous psychiatric clinic] outside of Moscow. And that\u2019s where chapter 6 takes place, while the \u00ab<\/strong>\u0434\u043e<\/span>\u043a\u0442\u043e\u0440\u00bb<\/strong> [doctor] and the poet \u00ab<\/strong>\u0420\u044e<\/span>\u0445\u0438\u043d\u00bb<\/strong> [Ryukhin] try and figure out \u00ab<\/strong>\u0447\u0442\u043e <\/strong>\u043d\u0435 <\/strong>\u0442\u0430\u043a\u00bb<\/strong> [what\u2019s wrong] with Ivan. And in this dialogue, we find the following new and interesting words \u2013\u00a0 try and remember them, for who knows when you\u2019ll have to call someone names in Russian in the future?:<\/p>\n

Ivan greets doctor with two words: \u00ab<\/strong>\u0417\u0434\u043e\u0440\u043e<\/span>\u0432\u043e, <\/strong>\u0432\u0440\u0435\u0434\u0438<\/span>\u0442\u0435\u043b\u044c!\u00bb<\/strong> [\u201dHello there, economic saboteur!\u201d]. And that\u2019s when we know how this poet feels for representatives of the medical profession.<\/p>\n

\u00ab<\/strong>\u0432\u0440\u0435\u0434\u0438\u0442\u0435\u043b\u044c\u00bb<\/strong> – 1.<\/strong> pest, pl.<\/em> vermin; 2.<\/strong> economic saboteur.<\/p>\n

Then Ivan calls his \u2018friend\u2019<\/em> and fellow poet Ryukhin \u00ab<\/strong>\u0433\u043d\u0438<\/span>\u0434\u0430<\/a>\u00bb<\/strong> – 1.<\/strong> nit (louse egg)<\/em>; 2.<\/strong> scumbag, rascal. But that\u2019s not the end of his unenthusiastic feelings toward this person \u2013 for soon Ivan elaborates:<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u041d\u0430\u0448\u0451<\/span>\u043b\u0441\u044f \u043d\u0430\u043a\u043e\u043d\u0435<\/span>\u0446 \u043e\u0434\u0438<\/span>\u043d \u043d\u043e\u0440\u043c\u0430<\/span>\u043b\u044c\u043d\u044b\u0439 \u0441\u0440\u0435<\/span>\u0434\u0438 \u0438\u0434\u0438\u043e<\/span>\u0442\u043e\u0432, \u0438\u0437 \u043a\u043e\u0442\u043e<\/span>\u0440\u044b\u0445 \u043f\u0435<\/span>\u0440\u0432\u044b\u0439 \u2013 \u0431\u0430\u043b\u0431\u0435<\/span>\u0441 \u0438 \u0431\u0435\u0437\u0434\u0430<\/span>\u0440\u043d\u043e\u0441\u0442\u044c \u0421\u0430<\/span>\u0448\u043a\u0430!\u00bb<\/strong> [Finally someone normal turned up among all of these idiots, the first of whom is the talentless nitwit Sashka!]. Placing the postfix \u00ab-<\/strong>\u043a\u0430\u00bb<\/strong> in the diminutive form of a name is always a sign of dislike for this particular person.<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u0438\u0434\u0438\u043e<\/span>\u0442\u00bb<\/strong> – idiot.<\/p>\n

\u00ab<\/strong>\u0431\u0430\u043b\u0431\u0435<\/span>\u0441<\/a>\u00bb<\/strong> – colloq.<\/em> booby, nitwit.<\/p>\n

\u00ab<\/strong>\u0431\u0435\u0437\u0434\u0430<\/span>\u0440\u043d\u043e\u0441\u0442\u044c\u00bb<\/strong> – 1.<\/strong> lack of talent; 2.<\/strong> fig.<\/em> person with no talent (it should be added that to be called \u00ab<\/strong>\u0431\u0435\u0437\u0434\u0430<\/span>\u0440\u043d\u043e\u0441\u0442\u044c\u00bb<\/strong> in Russian is and feels much more worse than to be called \u2018a person with no talent\u2019<\/em> in English).<\/p>\n

Ivan doesn\u2019t stop there when it comes to giving a detailed description of Ryukhin\u2019s character. He continues: \u00ab\u0422\u0438\u043f\u0438<\/span>\u0447\u043d\u044b\u0439 \u043a\u0443\u043b\u0430\u0447\u043e<\/span>\u043a<\/a> \u043f\u043e \u0441\u0432\u043e\u0435<\/span>\u0439 \u043f\u0441\u0438\u0445\u043e\u043b\u043e<\/span>\u0433\u0438\u0438\u2026\u00bb <\/strong>[He\u2019s got the typical psychological traits of a little kulak\u2026]. Ouch! In the 1930\u2019s Soviet Union nothing could have been worse than to be called \u00ab<\/strong>\u043a\u0443\u043b\u0430\u0447\u043e<\/span>\u043a<\/a>\u00bb<\/strong>. Except the word which is diminutive of: \u00ab<\/strong>\u043a\u0443\u043b\u0430<\/span>\u043a<\/a>\u00bb<\/strong> [1.<\/strong> fist; 2.<\/strong> hist.<\/em> kulak<\/a> (<\/em>wealthy farmer who takes advantage of his less fortunate neighbors)<\/em>] \u2013 being called that was the first step on a long journey either to labor camps or for your entire family to be forced to move somewhere cold and unpleasant. And Russia was \u2013 is? \u2013 a huge country with plenty of cold and unpleasant places where one could be put away\u2026<\/p>\n

But even when using this clear expression Ivan finds it necessary to elaborate: \u00ab\u2026<\/strong>\u0438 <\/strong>\u043f\u0440\u0438\u0442\u043e<\/span>\u043c <\/strong>\u043a\u0443\u043b\u0430\u0447\u043e<\/span>\u043a, <\/strong>\u0442\u0449\u0430<\/span>\u0442\u0435\u043b\u044c\u043d\u043e <\/strong>\u043c\u0430\u0441\u043a\u0438<\/span>\u0440\u0443\u044e\u0449\u0438\u0439\u0441\u044f <\/strong>\u043f\u043e\u0434 <\/strong>\u043f\u0440\u043e\u043b\u0435\u0442\u0430<\/span>\u0440\u0438\u044f\u00bb<\/strong> [And moreover he\u2019s a little kulak masking himself carefully as a proletarian]. Ouch again! That must have hurt!<\/p>\n

While reading \u201cMaster & Margarita\u201d you might find something interesting if you underline the word \u00ab<\/strong>\u0447\u0451\u0440\u0442\u00bb<\/strong> [devil] every time is used, no matter in what context. You\u2019ll come to see that it is used many, many times in several expressions (three whole times only in chapter 6!) <\/em>throughout the novel, as if the characters in it were calling the Devil to come to Moscow\u2026 The doctor asks Ivan how he was brought to the hospital, at which he answers: \u00ab<\/strong>\u0414\u0430 <\/strong>\u0447\u0451\u0440\u0442 <\/strong>\u0438\u0445 <\/strong>\u0432\u043e\u0437\u044c\u043c\u0438<\/span>, <\/strong>\u043e<\/span><\/strong>\u043b\u0443\u0445\u043e\u0432!\u00bb<\/strong> [lit.<\/em> \u2018Let the devil take them, blockheads!\u2019, or: \u2018To hell with them, blockheads!\u2019].<\/p>\n

\u00ab<\/strong>\u043e<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\u043b\u0443\u0445<\/a>\u00bb<\/strong> – colloq.<\/em> oaf; dolt; blockhead.<\/p>\n

Ivan calls the people at the mental hospital \u00ab<\/strong>\u0431\u0430\u043d\u0434\u0438<\/span>\u0442\u044b\u00bb<\/strong> [bandits, thugs] before we\u2019re left watching as he\u2019s taken away at the end of chapter 6.<\/p>\n

And to finish off the chapter, Ryukhin calls \u00ab<\/strong>\u0410\u0440\u0447\u0438\u0431\u0430<\/span>\u043b\u044c\u0434 <\/strong>\u0410\u0440\u0447\u0438\u0431\u0430<\/span>\u043b\u044c\u0434\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0447\u00bb<\/strong> [Archibald Archilbaldovich] \u00ab<\/strong>\u043f\u0438\u0440\u0430<\/span>\u0442\u00bb<\/strong> [a pirate]. Not to his face \u2013 but still! It is not a very kind thing to think about a fellow human being. Next chapter is \u00ab<\/strong>\u0413\u043b\u0430\u0432\u0430<\/span> 7 (<\/strong>\u0441\u0435\u0434\u044c\u043c\u0430<\/span>\u044f): <\/strong>\u041d\u0435\u0445\u043e\u0440\u043e<\/span>\u0448\u0430\u044f <\/strong>\u043a\u0432\u0430\u0440\u0442\u0438<\/span>\u0440\u0430\u00bb <\/strong>[Chapter 7: Not a Good Apartment] \u2013 I can\u2019t wait! Will we finally be introduced to Begemot?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

It doesn\u2019t really feel like \u00ab\u043b\u0435\u0442\u043e\u00bb [summer] until you\u2019ve spent an entire afternoon doing nothing but the following simultaneously: \u00ab\u043b\u0435\u0436\u0430\u0442\u044c \u0432 \u0442\u0440\u0430\u0432\u0435\u00bb [to lie in the grass], \u00ab\u043f\u0438\u0442\u044c \u0445\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0434\u043d\u043e\u0435 \u043c\u043e\u043b\u043e\u043a\u043e\u00bb [to drink cold milk] and \u00ab\u0447\u0438\u0442\u0430\u0442\u044c \u0411\u0443\u043b\u0433\u0430\u043a\u043e\u0432\u0430\u00bb [to read Bulgakov]. \u00ab\u0420\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0438\u044f\u00bb [Russia] is a wonderful country in many, many ways \u2013 but during my six…<\/p>\n

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