{"id":1296,"date":"2010-08-24T23:01:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T23:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2014-07-17T13:29:58","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T13:29:58","slug":"master-and-margarita-chapter-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/master-and-margarita-chapter-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading \u00ab\u041c\u0430\u0441\u0442\u0435\u0440 \u0438 \u041c\u0430\u0440\u0433\u0430\u0440\u0438\u0442\u0430\u00bb: Chapter 12"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chapter 12 \u2013 \u00ab<\/strong>\u042f\u0432\u043b\u0435<\/span>\u043d\u0438\u0435 <\/strong>\u0433\u0435\u0440\u043e<\/span>\u044f\u00bb<\/strong> [\u201cThe Appearance of the Hero\u201d, or an even better English translation might be: \u201dThe Hero Appears\u201d] \u2013 is where we, the readers of \u201cMaster & Margarita\u201d, finally come to understand what the novel\u2019s title means. In this chapter an enigmatic \u00ab<\/strong>\u0433\u043e\u0441\u0442\u044c\u00bb<\/strong> [mas.<\/em> guest] comes into the room of \u00ab<\/strong>\u0418\u0432\u0430<\/span>\u043d <\/strong>\u0411\u0435\u0437\u0434\u043e<\/span>\u043c\u043d\u044b\u0439\u00bb<\/strong> [Ivan \u2018Homeless\u2019<\/em>] in the mental hospital in the middle of the night \u2013 through the balcony. During his visit he asks about how Ivan came to be there as well as manages to tell the story of his life, all without ever mentioning his own name. Not even once! The stranger is fascinated with how Ivan\u2019s arrival to the mental hospital is tightly linked to Pontius Pilate \u2013 a historical figure about whom he himself once wrote an entire novel. After receiving this piece of curious information Ivan asks the mysterious man: \u00ab<\/strong>\u0412\u044b \u2013 <\/strong>\u043f\u0438\u0441\u0430<\/span>\u0442\u0435\u043b\u044c?\u00bb <\/strong>[\u201dAre you a writer?\u201d]. But he almost corrects him: \u00ab<\/strong>\u042f \u2013 <\/strong>\u043c\u0430<\/span>\u0441\u0442\u0435\u0440\u00bb<\/strong> [\u201cI am a master\u201d]. He points at this hat which has the letter \u00ab<\/strong>\u041c\u00bb<\/strong> sown onto it in yellow silk and comments: \u00ab<\/strong>\u041e\u043d\u0430<\/span> <\/strong>\u0441\u0432\u043e\u0438<\/span>\u043c\u0438 <\/strong>\u0440\u0443\u043a\u0430<\/span>\u043c\u0438 <\/strong>\u0441\u0448\u0438<\/span>\u043b\u0430 <\/strong>\u0435\u0451<\/span> <\/strong>\u043c\u043d\u0435\u00bb<\/strong> [\u201cShe sew it for me with her own hands\u201d]. Who is \u00ab<\/strong>\u043e\u043d\u0430<\/span>\u00bb<\/strong> [she]? The Master does not mention her name while telling Ivan the whole story about how they met. But we all can guess that she must be the \u00ab<\/strong>\u041c\u0430\u0440\u0433\u0430\u0440\u0438<\/span>\u0442\u0430\u00bb<\/strong> [Margarita] from the book\u2019s title, right? Chapter 12 might just as well be called \u00ab<\/strong>\u042f\u0432\u043b\u0435<\/span>\u043d\u0438\u0435 <\/strong>\u0433\u0435\u0440\u043e<\/span>\u044f <\/strong>\u0438 <\/strong>\u0433\u0435\u0440\u043e\u0438<\/span>\u043d\u0438\u00bb<\/strong> [\u201cThe appearance of the Hero and the Heroine\u201d] for from this chapter on she comes to play an equally important part to the story as he does \u2013 perhaps an even greater one! In my strictly personal opinion, the title of the novel might just as well have been \u00ab<\/strong>\u041c\u0430\u0440\u0433\u0430\u0440\u0438<\/span>\u0442\u0430 <\/strong>\u0438 <\/strong>\u041c\u0430<\/span>\u0441\u0442\u0435\u0440\u00bb<\/strong> [\u201cMargarita and The Master\u201d] instead of the other way around. Chapter 12 is only our first introduction to the novel\u2019s two \u2018main\u2019<\/em> characters, but the further we reach in their stories and their involvement in the plot, the more will we understand that it is not entirely clear who of these two are really \u00ab<\/strong>\u0433\u043b\u0430<\/span>\u0432\u043d\u044b\u0439\u00bb<\/strong> [main, chief, principal; head (in mas. sing.)<\/em>] \u2013 or should I perhaps say \u00ab<\/strong>\u0433\u043b\u0430<\/span>\u0432\u043d\u0430\u044f\u00bb<\/strong> [the same adjective but in fem. sing]?<\/p>\n

Chapter 12 is where the according to some scholars \u00ab<\/strong>\u0444\u0430\u043d\u0442\u0430\u0441\u0442\u0438<\/span>\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 <\/strong>\u0440\u043e\u043c\u0430<\/span>\u043d\u00bb <\/strong>[fantastic\/fantasy novel] transforms from \u00ab<\/strong>\u0440\u0435\u0430\u043b\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0438<\/span>\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 <\/strong>\u0440\u043e\u043c\u0430<\/span>\u043d <\/strong>\u0441 <\/strong>\u044d\u043b\u0435\u043c\u0435<\/span>\u043d\u0442\u0430\u043c\u0438 <\/strong>\u0444\u0430\u043d\u0442\u0430<\/span>\u0441\u0442\u0438\u043a\u0438\u00bb <\/strong>[a realistic novel with elements of fantasy] into \u00ab<\/strong>\u043b\u044e\u0431\u043e<\/span>\u0432\u043d\u044b\u0439 <\/strong>\u0440\u043e\u043c\u0430<\/span>\u043d\u00bb<\/strong> [a love novel]. Or it might be more correct to call that aspect of the novel for \u00ab<\/strong>\u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e<\/span>\u0440\u0438\u044f <\/strong>\u043e\u0434\u043d\u043e<\/span>\u0439 <\/strong>\u043b\u044e\u0431\u0432\u0438<\/span>\u00bb<\/strong> [the history of one love] \u2013 what love is that, you might ask? Well, the love \u00ab<\/strong>\u043c\u0435<\/span>\u0436\u0434\u0443 <\/strong>\u043c\u0430<\/span>\u0441\u0442\u0435\u0440\u043e\u043c <\/strong>\u0438 <\/strong>\u043e\u0434\u043d\u043e<\/span>\u0439 <\/strong>\u0437\u0430\u043c\u0443<\/span>\u0436\u043d\u0435\u0439 <\/strong>\u0436\u0435<\/span>\u043d\u0449\u0438\u043d\u043e\u0439\u00bb <\/strong>[between the Master and one married woman] \u00ab<\/strong>\u0431\u0435\u0437 <\/strong>\u0438<\/span><\/strong>\u043c\u0435\u043d\u0438\u00bb<\/strong> [without a name]. We all realize that she\u2019s \u00ab<\/strong>\u041c\u0430\u0440\u0433\u0430\u0440\u0438<\/span>\u0442\u0430\u00bb<\/strong> [Margarita] \u2013 as we find out that their love came upon them like a thief on the street, according to what the Master told Ivan.<\/p>\n

Since they are indeed a \u00ab<\/strong>\u0437\u043d\u0430\u043c\u0435\u043d\u0438<\/span>\u0442\u0430\u044f <\/strong>\u043f\u0430<\/span>\u0440\u0430 <\/strong>\u0438\u0437 <\/strong>\u0440\u0443<\/span>\u0441\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0439 <\/strong>\u043b\u0438\u0442\u0435\u0440\u0430\u0442\u0443<\/span>\u0440\u044b\u00bb<\/strong> [famous couple from Russian literature], I thought to myself: \u201cWhy not finish this post with a quiz to see if you can pair some literary couples with the books that chronicle their love story?\u201d I had a bit of \u00ab\u043a\u0440\u0438<\/span>\u0437\u0438\u0441 \u0441 \u0444\u0430\u043d\u0442\u0430<\/span>\u0437\u0438\u0435\u0439 \u0438 \u043f\u0430<\/span>\u043c\u044f\u0442\u044c\u044e\u00bb<\/strong> [crisis with (my)<\/em> fantasy and memory] while trying to come up with at least five couples \u2013 not all of them necessarily had a happy ending. If you know more couples than this, please share them in the comments (and don\u2019t forget to mention in which book we might find them)<\/em>!<\/p>\n

1. \u00ab\u0421\u043e<\/span>\u043d\u044f \u0438 \u0420\u0430\u0441\u043a\u043e<\/span>\u043b\u044c\u043d\u0438\u043a\u043e\u0432\u00bb<\/strong> [Sonia and Raskol’nikov];<\/p>\n

2. \u00ab\u041b\u0430<\/span>\u0440\u0430 \u0438 \u0416\u0438\u0432\u0430<\/span>\u0433\u043e\u00bb<\/strong> [Lara and Zhivago];<\/p>\n

3. \u00ab\u041d\u0430\u0442\u0430<\/span>\u0448\u0430 \u0438 \u0411\u0435\u0437\u0443<\/span>\u0445\u043e\u0432\u00bb<\/strong> [Natasha and Bezukhov];<\/p>\n

4. \u00ab\u0422\u0430\u0442\u044c\u044f<\/span>\u043d\u0430 \u0438 \u041e\u043d\u0435<\/span>\u0433\u0438\u043d\u00bb<\/strong> [Tatiana and Onegin];<\/p>\n

5. \u00ab<\/strong>\u041e\u0434\u0438\u043d\u0446\u043e<\/span>\u0432\u0430 <\/strong>\u0438 <\/strong>\u0411\u0430\u0437\u0430<\/span>\u0440\u043e\u0432\u00bb<\/strong> [Odintsova and Bazarov].<\/p>\n

*<\/strong><\/p>\n

A. \u00ab\u0412\u043e\u0439\u043d\u0430<\/span> \u0438 \u043c\u0438\u0440\u00bb<\/strong> [\u201cWar and Peace\u201d];<\/p>\n

B.\u00a0\u00ab\u041e\u0442\u0446\u044b<\/span> \u0438 \u0434\u0435<\/span>\u0442\u0438\u00bb<\/strong> [\u201cFathers and Sons\u201d];<\/p>\n

C. \u00ab\u041f\u0440\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0443\u043f\u043b\u0435<\/span>\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u0438 \u043d\u0430\u043a\u0430\u0437\u0430<\/span>\u043d\u0438\u0435\u00bb<\/strong> [\u201cCrime and Punishment\u201d];<\/p>\n

D. \u00ab\u0415\u0432\u0433\u0435<\/span>\u043d\u0438\u0439 \u041e\u043d\u0435<\/span>\u0433\u0438\u043d\u00bb<\/strong> [\u201cEvgeny Onegin\u201d]<\/p>\n

E. \u00ab\u0414\u043e<\/span>\u043a\u0442\u043e\u0440 \u0416\u0438\u0432\u0430<\/span>\u0433\u043e\u00bb<\/strong> [\u201cDoctor Zhivago\u201d].<\/p>\n

Leave your answers \u2013 or guesses, if that\u2019s how you\u2019d rather define them \u2013 in the comments like this \u201c1 + E\u201d<\/em><\/strong> (if you think that\u2019s right).<\/em> You get extra points if you can also add who the writers behind each of the novels are! I\u2019ll publish the correct answers on Thursday. If this was super-easy for you, then let me introduce a more difficult task: How come (almost)<\/em> all the female characters on the list above are mainly called by their first names, whereas the male go by their last names?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

Chapter 12 \u2013 \u00ab\u042f\u0432\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u0433\u0435\u0440\u043e\u044f\u00bb [\u201cThe Appearance of the Hero\u201d, or an even better English translation might be: \u201dThe Hero Appears\u201d] \u2013 is where we, the readers of \u201cMaster & Margarita\u201d, finally come to understand what the novel\u2019s title means. In this chapter an enigmatic \u00ab\u0433\u043e\u0441\u0442\u044c\u00bb [mas. guest] comes into the room of \u00ab\u0418\u0432\u0430\u043d \u0411\u0435\u0437\u0434\u043e\u043c\u043d\u044b\u0439\u00bb…<\/p>\n

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