A dramatic story of creation. "Master and Margarita" - a novel about eternal love and creative power

It often happens that these or those books have an interesting and dramatic story of creation. "Master and Margarita", this immortal masterpiece is a vivid representative of just such a situation. The idea of the novel arises long before his first press, and even more so the film adaptation. In the distant 1928, the first characters in it were Woland and his retinue. Then the author assumed that he would call his work differently, because he was thinking as a novel about the devil.

At that time, the history of creation survived three names. "Master and Margarita," as the name of the book, appeared much later. Bulgakov assumed three headings: "Consultant with a hoof," "Black Mage" and "Hoof Engineer." Recently, the book "The Grand Chancellor" was published, in it every lover of the author's work can be acquainted with the first drafting versions. By the way, most of them Mikhail Afanasyevich personally destroyed. Later, the writer tries to resume the creation of the book, but his overwork, both physical and psychological, prevents him from doing so.

The beginning of work on the novel is accompanied by a difficult period in the life of the creator, and all these blows, one way or another, reflect the history of creation. "Master and Margarita" at some point ceased to be created at all, even in the handwritten version. Moreover, almost all the drafts that existed then were burned, a pair of notebooks and several sketches of various chapters were preserved. Works of the author are forbidden, they are considered hostile to the life order of that time. This is what has a significant impact on the work on the book.

Margarita appears in the plan only in 1932, and behind it - the Master. A woman in love is not accidentally included in the plot, her image entirely corresponds to the wife of Bulgakov. The next two years the author is working on his manuscripts and does not expect to see the work printed. For eight years of work, he finishes the draft version, and it is already the sixth in a row!

The structure of the novel is formed only in 1937, we can say that this ends the main story of the creation, "Master and Margarita" finally gets its name, as well as a story that does not change in the future. However, the work does not stop until the last author's sigh, most of the corrections to the work are made by the husband of Bulgakov.

The author's obsession with the novel did not pass without a trace, his wife sets a single goal - to achieve the publication of the book. Elena Sergeevna reprints the manuscript and independently makes minor changes. The magazine "Moscow" was the first to whom it was lucky to acquaint the world with this immortal creation, a masterpiece of Russian literature. Then in 1967 it is published in Paris and translated into several European languages. As for Russia, here the full text of the work appears only in 1973. The history of the creation of the novel "The Master and Margarita" has lasted almost half a century, but its genre affiliation has not yet been determined.

Thus, as if the reflection of the life of the creator is the novel "The Master and Margarita", the story of its creation is closely intertwined with the whole plot. The fate of the Master and Bulgakov are two extremely similar life lines. His duty as a creator, he sees in returning to humanity the belief in higher ideals, to recall the search for truth. And the novel about eternal love and creative power is a clear confirmation of this.