Arbat and its surroundings (with stairway to hell)
Historical and satanic spaces in “The Master and Margarita”
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https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i8.11500Keywords:
Bulgakov, The Master, Margarita, Woland, JerusalemAbstract
The aim of this article is to propose an analysis of literary space in Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita, seen from the perspective of a series of antinomies, according to a procedure typical of Russian culture: Moscow vs Jerusalem, solar vs lunar space, the house vs the flat, the third vs fourth dimensions. This analysis shows how the structure of the literary space in this novel is particularly complex and contains explicit meanings as well as meanings hidden from the reader, which therefore deserve further investigation.
This article was originally published in the volume Le configurazioni dello spazio nel romanzo del ’900, edited by Paolo Amalfitano, Rome, Bulzoni, 1998, pp. 111‑121 («I libri dell’Associazione Sigismondo Malatesta. Studi di letteratura comparata e teatro», 11).
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