Платок с синей каемочкой, или парадоксы беспамятства (Меморативный дискурс в произведениях Михаила Булгакова)
A blue-bordered handkerchief or paradoxes of oblivion. A commemorative discourse in the Mikhail Bulgakov’s world

Summary/Abstract: The category of memory is one of the philosophical dominants of Bulgakov’s world. Memory is able to “neutralize” time, resurrecting the past. However, the content of Bulgakov’s heroes memories consist of frustrating or even disastrous events. Therefore, the desired option for them is a complete repression, an “erasure” of such information. In philosophical sense, the thirst for oblivion means the desire of Bulgakov’s character to break away from time as an ontological coordinate and go into eternity, to find peace both in the psychological and ontological sense. At the plot level memorial collisions are often realized through the motive of a mental disorder and/or associated with it suicide, which symbolizing the stage of calm, “nirvana” of oblivion. In formal, а calm can be associated with entropy, the death, but essentially it means condition “between” being and non-being, a euphoric state of deliverance from earthly troubles and sorrows.

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