Mural in Gothenburg
July 28, 2015
Today, we added to this website a page on the illustrations made by the Swedish artist Jan Persson for The Master and Margarita in 1995.
It's a rather unreal experience to drive to the east of Gothenburg, Sweden, through a large and gloomy industrial area, and to suddenly arrive at the Bergsjön Center, a residential area at the edge of a forest, built in 1970, where mainly «new Swedes» are living and where you can find a long mural drawing with illustrations of The Master and Margarita on the wall of a supermarket.
Probably, only few of the 15,700 inhabitants of this city district, representing about 140 different nationalities, will know who Mikhail Bulgakov was, let alone that they would have read The Master and Margarita. And yet, they are familiar with the characters of the novel, since most of them come along this colourful fresco of 2.5 meters high and 55 meters long on the wall of the local ICA supermarket at the marketplace Rymdtorget every day.
Click here to read more about it and to watch the illustrations
The Great Ball at Satan's by Jan Persson
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- 201031 A new book about the novel
- 200824 Illustrations Alexander Semushin
- 200822 Illustrations panalevich
- 200724 Animation Galina Sokolova
- 200714 ABC Radio National
- 200608 Ksenia Voloshkina
- 200604 Gabi Bania
- 200510 Would-be Margaritas
- 200223 Katy Kononova and MC TJ
- 200222 Illustrations Vyacheslav Zhelvakov
- 200220 Music by Trails Don't Lie
- 200210 The screen adaptations
- 200202 Illustrations Jan Vanhellemont
- 200124 Our book in Dutch
- 200122 Illustrations by Julia Galkina
- 200116 Illustrations by Andrey Nikolaev
- 200101 Book about the novel
Films and TV-series
Along with much information on the novel, you will also find on this website different film adaptations of The Master and Margarita, subtitled in English by your webmaster.