Мастер и Маргарита

Жанна Астер

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Zhanna Aster (° Kaliningrad, 21/05/1964) is a Russian writer, poet, compo-ser and singer who now lives and works in France. She studied philology at the State University of Kaliningrad and began working as a journalist-correspondent for various publishers in 1986.

In 1989 she published her first book of poetry The Presence of Light. This allowed her to participate to the congress of the Union of Soviet Writers. As a result, a cycle of her poems was published in the magazine's Young Guard, and she moved to Moscow, where she studied at the Gorky Literary Institute.

In 1994 Zhanna Aster emigrated to Paris where would write more poetry and her first novel Danny Delphi. The novel was published on the internet and in the summer of 2010 it will be released in book format. She’s also preparing a book which will be called My idols in literature, film and music, and in which will be discussed Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mikhail Bulgakov, Ossip Mandelstam, Joseph Brodsky and others.

In addition Zhanna Aster began to concentrate on musical projects. She began writing songs and sing them in Russian, French and English. She released her first album, Apparence, on her private label in 2009. It was an album with many psychedelic and philosophical influences.

Later that year she made two songs which were inspired by The Master and Margarita. The fierce Мастер и Маргарита (The Master and Marga-rita) and the more subdued, almost mystical Маргарита (Margarita) are not yet released on record, but can already be listened here.