UNIVERSE RELATIVITY AND MYTHOPOETIC PARADIGM OF THE “EARTHLY WORLD” IN M. BULGAKOV`S NOVEL “THE MASTER AND MARGARITA”
The purpose of the work is to show the relativity of the Universe in the individual author`s myth of M. Bulgakov based on the analysis of the mythopoetic paradigm of the “earthly world” in the novel “The Master and Margarita” in conjunction with the axiological intention of the writer. So, the pur...
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Alfred Nobel University Publisher
2022-06-01
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| Series: | Вісник університету ім. А. Нобеля. Серія Філологічні науки |
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| Summary: | The purpose of the work is to show the relativity of the Universe in the individual author`s myth of
M. Bulgakov based on the analysis of the mythopoetic paradigm of the “earthly world” in the novel “The
Master and Margarita” in conjunction with the axiological intention of the writer. So, the purpose stipulates
the usage of methodological basis of the study including hermeneutic, structural-semantic, poetological,
mythopoetic research methods.
In the picture of the world created by M. Bulgakov, the basic semantic-structural basis of the
ontological model is the idea of the relativity of the Universe, which is manifested in the understanding
of the laws of being and human existence. Covering the epistemological and essential spheres of being,
relativity is found in various constants (the idea of Good and Evil, the understanding of which implies the
nature of antinomic mutual and co-relations).
One of the fundamental philosophical problems is actualized – the Truth and its adequate perception
(the characters reveal their involvement or non-participation in the “eternal truths”). The “truths” declared
by the characters of Moscow in the 1930s turn out to be not true, knowledge turns out to be ignorance,
etc., which is debunked at the plot-figurative level by the tricks of Woland and his retinue.
In accordance with the notion of the relativity of being, the existence of the fifth dimension turns
out to be admissible; transformations of spatial parameters, instantaneous changes in the topos of the
characters, temporal shifts, etc. become possible.
In Bulgakov`s artistic world the polystructure of mythopoetic symbolism can be traced to the image of
the earthly world in its correlation with solar and lunar imagery and their derivatives (sun and moonbeams,
sunset, dawn, etc.). Particularly significant are the reactions of the characters to certain astral objects, as
well as qualitative changes in astral objects that react to the actions of people, more broadly – to the state
of the world, the ratio of good and evil in it, the trampling of truth, etc.
Consideration of polyvariant semantics in connection with the functional features of imagessymbols and symbolic details reveals the dominance of a complex of performed characterological and plotcompositional (code) functions that precede subsequent events in the novel.
The article proposes observations on symbolic images and details that remained outside the attention
of researchers.
The undertaken analysis of the textual material gave grounds for the correction proposed in the work
not only of individual interpretive provisions that exist in modern Bulgakov studies, but also for clarifying
the ethical and philosophical vectors of the author’s intentionality, due to which demonic evil turns out
to be less dangerous than what the human cohort of “small demons” are doing (a storyline associated
with the image of Moscow in the 1930s) and people in power (Pilate and others). The latter (power) is
recognized by the author of “The Master and Margarita” as a special form of violence against people.
Bulgakov`s individual author`s myth is anthropocentric, because mercy and kindness, according to the
writer, are the sphere of humans (this is also the subject of the rethinking of the Christian tradition, the
strengthening of the human emanation in the image of Yeshua; Margarita and the Master show mercy in
the novel). The writer builds a spiritual vertical in which the value scale is formed by the ideas of love, inner
freedom, and creativity, which are enduring, eternal values for Bulgakov.
Mythopoetic symbolism as a capacious form of a polylogue with the constants of human spiritual being
in the 30s of the twentieth century actualizes the author`s internally oppositional dialogue with modernity
and its deformations and acts as a productive way of expressing the writer`s artistic consciousness. |
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| ISSN: | 2523-4463 2523-4749 |