С юбилеем, «Иван Васильевич»! Пьеса М. А. Булгакова — литературный источник фильма Л. И. Гайдая
Happy Anniversary, ‘Ivan Vasilievich’! M. A. Bulgakov’s Play as a Literary Inspiration for L. I. Gaidai’s Film

Summary/Abstract: L. I. Gaidai’s comedic film “Ivan Vasilievich Changes Professions” was based on M. A. Bulgakov’s play “Ivan Vasilievich”, which in turn was based on a reworking of his pseudo-utopian drama “Bliss”. The meaning of the film is therefore impossible to appreciate without a deep analysis of M. A. Bulgakov’s literary work. In this article the author examines the history of the play. She shows the difficulties that the talented Soviet dramatist experienced when he was writing the play; she examines questions about its production in the Moscow Satire Theater; she describes the attitude of the writer’s contemporaries toward “Ivan Vasilievich.” Finally, the author explains the reasons for the play’s censorship in 1936. But the main aim of this article is to show how the attitude towards the play changed within the Soviet philological field. At the turn of twenty first century, Yu. V. Babitcheva, Ya. S. Lur’e and V. I. Losev describe the play in their books, articles and critical reviews as having been a satirical work with political overtones.

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