This book - about the famous novel of М.А. Булгакова "Master and Margaret". And yet - about literary истэблишменте that Mikhail Athanasius named Массолитом. Lately books in that promise to expose all secrets of great novel go out with enviable regularity. The authors of similar works are set by the same questions on that find no less predictable answers.Became how hardly not tradition to set rhetorical question: why Master did not deserve "light", id est, his guilt consists in what. At the same time, an answer for him ensues from "open", uncoded part of novel, he lies literally on a surface.Критик-булгаковед Alfred Барков offers an alternative look to the novel and on the figure of Master. In opinion of author, not who another became a prototype for Master, as Maxim Gorki. Barques considers that date of death of Gorki (1936 year) and there is time of events of story thread of novel "Master and Margaret". Read and be surprised!