Морфий Михаила Булгакова и Морфий Щепана Твардоха. О «бытии в одиночку» сквозь призму проюлемы двойственности
Morphine by Mikhail Bulgakov and Morphine by Szczepan Twardoch on “being single» in the context of the problem of duality

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the publication is to analyze the problem of loneliness in Morphine, the short story of Mikhail Bulgakov, and in the novel of Szczepan Twardoch under the same title. The world depicted in both texts seems to be based on the principle of negation, i.e. presentation of the value through the juxtaposition of its oppositions. Consequently, the justified methodological approach is focusing on the problem of duality, which can be perceived in the selected texts as translated into the metaphor of the mirror, category of the double or dialects of the divine and the diabolic. The problem of drug addiction of the main character of both texts is directly connected with the issue of loneliness, the condition to which the human being is doomed in the face of outside threat. The unstable feeling of security may be interiorized in the experience of the body, in particular in its physiology and anxiety disorders. The texts of Mikhail Bulgakov and Szczepan Twardoch show many differences on their surface levels, however, the emotionally engaged reader will notice that their common ground can undoubtedly be the rule of the double reflection, which is used, among other things, to work out the character of the protagonists, the plot structure and the symbolic system.

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