PERSPEKTYW A NARRACYJNA W POWIEŚCIACH MICHAŁA BUŁHAKOWA
NARRATION PERSPECTIVE IN MIKHAIL BULGAKOV’S NOVELS

Summary/Abstract: The subject of an analysis in the article is the narration perspective in M. Bulgakov’s works: The White Guard, Theatrical Novel and Master and Margaret. The last two novels are an example of the dramatic method resulting from the more general aesthetic premisses of the writer’s work such as satirical distance and the type of psychologism which con­sists in the relinquishment of introspection for the sake of presentation of the external symptoms of psychic phenomena. The White Guard does not fit into this model as an auctorial historical novel of the Tolstoian type. Jn this connection the problem of evaluations assumes a peculiar signi­ficance. In Theatrical Novel and Master and Margaret a transition takes place into the point of view' of the presented world. In relation to the diarist’s narration of Theatrical Novel in the article there are considered among other things such problems as satirical distance, language of narration and the closed composition of the work. In the novel Master and Margaret the heterogeneities of the presented world (com­position of fragments) correspond to the two separate types of narration which makes that the author’s subject co-ordinating both these attitudes becomes a more distinct category.

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