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Mikhaïl Afanassievitch Boulgakov , né le 3 mai 1891 à Kiev et mort le 10 mars 1940 à Moscou, est un écrivain et médecin russe puis soviétique.

Mikhaïl Boulgakov travaille d'abord comme médecin durant la Première Guerre mondiale, la Révolution russe et la guerre civile russe. À partir de 1920, il abandonne cette profession pour se consacrer au journalisme et à la littérature, où il est confronté, tout au long de sa carrière, aux difficultés de la censure soviétique.

Mort à seulement 48 ans, il a écrit pour le théâtre et l'opéra, mais il est surtout connu pour des œuvres de fiction comme les romans La Garde blanche, paru en 1925, et Le Roman de monsieur de Molière, achevé en 1933 , ou la nouvelle Cœur de chien achevée en 1925, mais publiée en URSS en 1987.

Son œuvre la plus connue est Le Maître et Marguerite, roman plusieurs fois réécrit et retravaillé entre 1928 et 1940, publié en URSS dans son intégralité pour la première fois en 1973, dans lequel il mêle habilement le fantastique et le réel, de telle sorte que le fantastique passe pour réel, et le réel pour fantastique, ainsi que les époques et les lieux, Jérusalem au Ier siècle, sous Ponce Pilate, et Moscou, dans les années 1930, sous la dictature stalinienne. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. mai 1891 – 10. mars 1940   •   Autres noms Michail Afanas'evič Bulgakov, Michail Afanasjevič Bulgakov, Michail Boelgakof
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Mikhail Bulgakov citations célèbres

“Ce gamin de 20 ans se fit remarquer dès sa tendre enfance, par d'étranges dispositions. C'était un rêveur, un original. Une jeune fille tomba amoureuse de lui; il la prit, et la vendit à une maison close.”

Mikhail Bulgakov

“Et quelle désinvolture […] cette espèce de pétulance! Et notez bien que c'est à moi qu'il incombe de donner des instructions à ce coquin.”

Mikhail Bulgakov livre Les Œufs du destin

The Fatal Eggs

“Tout à coup on perd pied dans les ténèbres fangeuses du sommeil, mais un tressaillement, et on refait surface aussitôt.”

Mikhail Bulgakov livre A Country Doctor's Notebook

A Country Doctor's Notebook

Mikhail Bulgakov: Citations en anglais

“The whole horror of the situation is that he now has a human heart, not a dog's heart. And about the rottenest heart in all creation!”

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Mikhail Bulgakov livre Heart of a Dog

Source: Heart of a Dog

“Annushka has already bought the sunflower oil, and has not only bought it, but has already spilled it.”

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Mikhail Bulgakov livre The Master and Margarita

Source: The Master and Margarita

“I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person.”

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Mikhail Bulgakov

Source: The Life of Monsieur de Moliere

“I challenge you to a duel!” screamed the cat, sailing over their heads on the swinging chandelier.”

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Mikhail Bulgakov livre The Master and Margarita

Source: The Master and Margarita

“But why don't you take him with you into the light?
He does not deserve the light, he deserves peace”

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Mikhail Bulgakov livre The Master and Margarita

Source: The Master and Margarita

“This twenty-year-old boy was distinguished from childhood by strange qualities, a dreamer and an eccentric. A girl fell in love with him, and he went and sold her to a brothel…”

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Mikhail Bulgakov livre The Master and Margarita

Source: The Master and Margarita

“'Kant ought to be arrested and given three years in Solovki asylum for that "proof" of his!' Ivan Nikolayich burst out completely unexpectedly. 'Ivan!' whispered Berlioz, embarrassed. But the suggestion to pack Kant off to an asylum not only did not surprise the stranger but actually delighted him. 'Exactly, exactly!' he cried and his green left eye, turned on Berlioz glittered. 'That's exactly the place for him! I said to him myself that morning at breakfast: "If you'll forgive me, professor, your theory is no good. It may be clever but it's horribly incomprehensible. People will think you're mad."' Berlioz's eyes bulged. At breakfast… to Kant?”

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Mikhail Bulgakov livre The Master and Margarita

Book One in 'Never Talk to Strangers', MG, here Woland, Berlioz and Ivan are talking about Kant's views on existence of God
The Master and Margarita (1967)

“Don't be afraid, Queen … don't be afraid, Queen, the blood has long since gone into the earth. And where it was spilled, grapevines are already growing.”

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Mikhail Bulgakov livre The Master and Margarita

Book Two in 'The Great Ball at Satan's', P/V
The Master and Margarita (1967)

“... said the not entirely suppressed old Ivan, rearing his head from inside the new one, although without much confidence.”

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Mikhail Bulgakov livre The Master and Margarita

Book One in 'Black Magic and Its Expose', B/O
The Master and Margarita (1967)

“I had the pleasure of meeting that young man at the Patriarch's Ponds. He almost drove me mad myself, proving to me that I don't exist. But you do believe that it is really I?”

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Mikhail Bulgakov livre The Master and Margarita

Book Two in 'The Extraction of the Master, P/V, here Woland addresses the Master about Ivan (alias "Homless")
The Master and Margarita (1967)

“No documents, no person.”

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Mikhail Bulgakov livre The Master and Margarita

Book Two in 'The Liberation of the Master', B/O
The Master and Margarita (1967)

“We have no idea whether there were any other strange occurences in Moscow that night, and we have no intention of trying to find out, since the time has come for us to proceed to Part Two of this true narrative. Follow me, reader!”

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Mikhail Bulgakov livre The Master and Margarita

Book One in 'Unlucky Visitors', B/O, the last lines of Book One
The Master and Margarita (1967)

“It's all over, so let's not burden the telegraph system.”

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Mikhail Bulgakov livre The Master and Margarita

Book One in 'The Incident at Griboyedov', B/O
The Master and Margarita (1967)

“Gods, my gods! How sad the earth is at eventide! How mysterious are the mists over the swamps. Anyone who has wandered in these mists, who has suffered a great deal before death, or flown above the earth, bearing a burden beyond his strength knows this. Someone who is exhausted knows this. And without regret he forsakes the mists of the earth, its swamps and rivers, and sinks into the arms of death with a light heart knowing that death alone...”

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Mikhail Bulgakov livre The Master and Margarita

Book Two in 'Time to Go! Time to Go!', B/O
The Master and Margarita (1967)

“There was something uncommonly fake and uncertain in every line of these articles, depite their threatening and self-assured tone. I kept thinking... that the authors of these articles weren't saying what they wanted to say, and that that was why they were so furious.”

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Mikhail Bulgakov livre The Master and Margarita

Book One in 'Enter the Hero', B/O
The Master and Margarita (1967)

“In fact, I'm beginning to fear that this confusion will go on for a long time. And all because he writes down what I said incorrectly.”

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Mikhail Bulgakov livre The Master and Margarita

Book One in 'Pontius Pilate', B/O, here Yeshua is speaking to Pontius Pilate
The Master and Margarita (1967)

“It was clear to him that he had lost something irretrievably that day, and that now he wanted to make up for the loss with minor, inconsequential, and most importantly, belated measures.”

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Mikhail Bulgakov livre The Master and Margarita

Book Two in 'How the Procurator Tried to Save Judas of Karioth', B/O
The Master and Margarita (1967)

“Foreign visitors... how impressed you all are with foreign visitors! But they come in many different varieties.”

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Mikhail Bulgakov livre The Master and Margarita

Book One in 'The Evil Apartment', B/O
The Master and Margarita (1967)

“How sad, ye gods, how sad the world is at evening, how mysterious the mists over the swamps. You will know it when you have suffered greatly before dying, when you have walked through the world carrying an unbearable burden. You know it too when you are weary and ready to leave this earth without regret; it's mists, it's swamps and it's rivers; ready to give yourself into the arms of death with a light heart, knowing that death alone can comfort you.”

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Mikhail Bulgakov livre The Master and Margarita

Book Two in 'Absolution and Eternal Refuge', MG. (Note: Alternate translation of above passage ('Gods, my gods...'))
The Master and Margarita (1967)

“Only if some microorganism doesn't attack these tender hothouse plants and eat away at their roots, only if they don't rot! And that can happen with pineapples! Oh, yes, indeed it can!”

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Mikhail Bulgakov livre The Master and Margarita

Book Two in 'The End of Apartment No. 50', B/O
The Master and Margarita (1967)

“You're not Dostoevsky,' said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev.
'Well, who knows, who knows,' he replied.
'Dostoevsky's dead,' said the citizeness, but somehow not very confidently.
'I protest!”

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Mikhail Bulgakov livre The Master and Margarita

Behemoth exclaimed hotly. 'Dostoevsky is immortal!'
Book Two in 'The Last Adventures of Koroviev and Behemoth', P/V
The Master and Margarita (1967)

“Second freshness - that's what is nonsense! There is only one freshness - the first - and it is also the last. And if sturgeon is of the second freshness, that means it is simply rotten.”

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Mikhail Bulgakov livre The Master and Margarita

Book One in 'Hapless Visitors', P/V
The Master and Margarita (1967)

“What is all this? Damn me if I don't have you thrown out of here!' The beast just smiled and said: 'Damn you, I think you said? Very well!”

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Mikhail Bulgakov livre The Master and Margarita

Book One in 'A Day of Anxiety', MG
The Master and Margarita (1967)

“Unfortunately I cannot show it to you,' replied the master, 'because I burned it in my stove.'
'I'm sorry but I don't believe you,' said Woland. 'You can't have done. Manuscripts don't burn.”

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Mikhail Bulgakov livre The Master and Margarita

Book Two in 'The Master is Released', MG
The Master and Margarita (1967)

“Never ask for anything! Never for anything, and especially from those who are stronger than you. They'll make the offer themselves, and give everything themselves.”

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Mikhail Bulgakov livre The Master and Margarita

Book Two in 'The Extraction of the Master', P/V, here Woland addresses Margarita
The Master and Margarita (1967)

“For some reason, cats are usually addressed familiarly, though no cat has ever drunk bruderschaft with anyone.”

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Mikhail Bulgakov livre The Master and Margarita

Book Two in 'The Extraction of the Master', P/V
The Master and Margarita (1967)

“Cowardice was undoubtedly one of the most terrible vices - thus spoke Yeshua Ha-Nozri. 'No, philosopher, I disagree with you: it is the most terrible vice!”

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Mikhail Bulgakov livre The Master and Margarita

Book Two in 'The Burial', P/V, here Pontius Pilate responds to Yeshua
The Master and Margarita (1967)

“What's the use of dying in a ward surrounded by a lot of groaning and croaking incurables? Wouldn't it be much better to throw a party with that twenty-seven thousand and take poison and depart for the other world to the sound of violins, surrounded by lovely drunken girls and happy friends?”

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Book One in 'Unwelcome Visitors', MG
The Master and Margarita (1967)

“Ryukhin showed himself no mercy-'I don't believe in anything I've ever written!”

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Mikhail Bulgakov livre The Master and Margarita

Book One in 'Schizophrenia, as Predicted', B/O
The Master and Margarita (1967)

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