From Deliberations above Issues of Space and Time Continuum in the Novel The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov Cover Image

Z rozważań nad zagadnieniami czasoprzestrzeni w powieści Michaiła Bułhakowa Mistrz i Małgorzata
From Deliberations above Issues of Space and Time Continuum in the Novel The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Author(s): Anna Chudzińska-Parkosadze
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: The Master and Margarita; space and time; world of Woland, gnosis; Mikhail Bulgakov

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the problem of time and space as the essential factors of theworld model created in The Master and Margarita, the famous novel written by MikhailBulgakov. As many critics has already noticed, there are three basic space dimensions in theconsidering work of prose – Jerusalem, Moscow and the mysterious world of Woland. As thematter of fact the core problem of research concerns the latter. The world from which Wolandis coming is presented as a kind of inter-world between the other two, on the one hand, andas the objective Universe embracing them, creating in this way the unity of three dimensions,on the other hand. Moreover, in this piece of work, there has been made an attempt to recodethe Woland’s world by analysing the motifs of it through the symbols and themes of gnosis.

  • Issue Year: 1/2013
  • Issue No: XV
  • Page Range: 239-251
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish