*gasp*

Мастер и Маргарита was made into TV! I never knew that! Many thanks for informing me!

I just checked it out on RuTube. (How could I ever live without RuTube?) The ball scene looks interesting -

http://rutube.ru/tracks/861176.html?v=81500db332658b42c912d8ee1b37aebc

There are too many things to say about the book. Perhaps I will find an opportunity to write more about it in greater length. I am always searching for reading materials in Russian and it is high time that I reread the book in the original.

I have never lived in the sort of system that the book makes fun of. The book was recommended to me many years ago by a Russian mathematician, as it was also one of his all-time favorite books. I have not spoken to him for many years. I wonder what he would make of the TV adaptation? (He told me that he never watched TV, and being one of the hardest men to please I have ever known, I came to be under the general impression that it would probably be easier to drag a cow up to the top of a tree than to make him watch TV.)

Still, I have to say that it is just one of those books that I prefer to see animated than acted out by real actors.

Sure, it’s one of my all-time favorites. Manuscripts don’t burn! In case you didn’t know, they made it into a rather faithful live action TV mini-series a few years ago in Russia. (Even kept the nudity, somewhat to my surprise.) I’m not sure if it’s available in anything but Russian, but as I recall you’re no stranger to the language.

I’m a little curious about what you thought of the book, as it’s rare (for me, anyway) to find people familiar with it who don’t have the kind of system it satirizes in their memories or historic background. Or would present-day China also be a good place for a foreign professor to present a lecture debunking black magic?

P.S.:may I ask? has your mail changed? how can we contact you? because I’ve send you sth but don’t know, if you got it.