TY  - JOUR
A1  - Tumanov, Vladimir
T1  - Diabolus ex machina : Bulgakov's modernist devil
T2  - Scando-Slavica
N2  - In 1937, when Bulgakov was working on Master i Margarita and suffering from rejection by the theatre community, an old friend appealed to him: "Вы ведь государство в государстве. Сколько это может продолжаться? Надо сдаваться, все сдались. Один вы остались. Это глупо." And indeed "государство в государстве" ("a state within a state") is an appropriate way of describing a man who was feverishly working on a modernist novel at the height of socialist realism. The very fact that Master i Margarita was written in the oppressive environment of the 1930s makes it a unique modernist work, for it emerges as a protest against socialist realism and a defense of artistic freedom. In this respect the modernist qualities of Bulgakov's novel acquire a new dimension because Master i Margarita becomes a kind of artistic devil, fulfilling the traditional diabolic role of opposing authority. This is why Woland, as a character, is the metonymic expression of the novel's revolt.
KW  - Bulgakov, Michail / Master i Margarita
KW  - Modernismus
Y1  - 2014
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/36388
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-363882
SN  - 0080-6765
VL  - 35
SP  - 49
EP  - 61
PB  - Munksgaard
CY  - Copenhagen
ER  -