A network analysis of the structure of verbal communications in one of the most popular Russian novels of the Soviet era The Master and Margarita by M. A. Bulgakov has been carried out. The structure of the novel is complex, i.e. there is “a story within a story”. Moreover, the real-world-characters and the other-world-characters are interacting in the novel. This complex and unusual composition makes the novel especially attractive for a network analysis. In our study, only paired verbal communications (conversations) between explicitly present and acting characters have been taken into account; frontal communications, monologues, off-stage characters as well as expected connections between characters have not been taken into account. Based on a character pair verbal communication matrix, a graph has been constructed, the vertices of which are the characters of the novel, while the edges correspond to the connections between them. Taking only paired verbal communications into account leads to the result that the character network can be described by an ordinary, rather than a directed graph. Since the activity of the conversations was out of our intended scope, the edges have been given no weights. The largest connected component of the graph consists of 76 characters. Centralities, such as degree, betweenness, closeness, eigenvector, and assortativity coefficient were computed to characterize the network. The assortativity coefficient of the network under consideration is negative $-0.133$, i.e. the network does not demonstrate the properties of a social network. The structure of the communities in the network was also analyzed. In addition to the obvious large communities — the characters from the Yershalaim part of the novel and the characters of the Moscow part — the analysis also revealed a fine structure in the Moscow component. Using the analysis of centralities, a group of main characters has been detected. The central characters of the novel are Koroviev, Margarita, Bezdomny, Woland, Behemoth, Azazello, Bosoi, Warenukha, Master, and Levi Matthew.

对苏联时代最受欢迎的俄罗斯小说之一《大师与玛格丽塔》中言语交流结构的网络分析由MA Bulgakov 进行。小说结构复杂，即“故事中的故事”。此外，现实世界的人物和异世界的人物在小说中相互作用。这种复杂且不寻常的构图使得这部小说对于网络分析特别有吸引力。在我们的研究中，只考虑了明确呈现的角色和表演角色之间的配对口头交流（对话）。正面交流、独白、台下人物以及人物之间预期的联系都没有被考虑在内。基于人物对言语交流矩阵，构建了一个图，该图的顶点是小说中的人物，而边对应于他们之间的连接。仅考虑成对的言语交流会导致字符网络可以用普通的图而不是有向图来描述。由于对话的活动超出了我们的预期范围，因此没有给边缘赋予权重。该图的最大连通分量由 76 个字符组成。计算中心性，例如度、介数、接近度、特征向量和相配系数来表征网络。所考虑的网络的协同系数为负 计算中心性，例如度、介数、接近度、特征向量和相配系数来表征网络。所考虑的网络的协同系数为负 计算中心性，例如度、介数、接近度、特征向量和相配系数来表征网络。所考虑的网络的协同系数为负$-0。133$，即网络不展示社交网络的属性。还分析了网络中社区的结构。除了明显的大社区——小说中耶沙拉姆部分的人物和莫斯科部分的人物——分析还揭示了莫斯科部分的精细结构。通过中心性分析，发现了一组主要特征。小说的中心人物是科罗维耶夫、玛格丽塔、贝兹多姆尼、沃兰德、贝希莫斯、阿扎泽洛、博索伊、瓦雷努哈、马斯特和利维·马修。