Dwa bale z przesłaniem moralnym (Bułhakow i Goethe)
Two balls with moral message (Bulhakov versus Goethe)
Author(s): Katarzyna RutkiewiczSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Russian Literature, Other Language Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Polskie Towarzystwo Rusycytyczne
Keywords: Bulhakov; Goethe; Russian literature; comparative studies; German literature; Soviet Russia
Summary/Abstract: An article presents a subject of ball in literature. There is undertaken an effort to analyze two balls: Walpurgis Night from Faustus by Johan Wolfgang Goethe and Grand Devil’s Ball from The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. Author of the article shortly discusses genesis of the two balls, the sources of inspiration and symbolic significance. There is also stressed that both writers, Bulgakov and Goethe, by their work, wanted to settle accounts with cruelty: Goethe with cruelty of Middle Ages, Bulgakov with cruelty of Russia, from past time to Stalin’s Soviet Russia. Moreover, to illustrate the subject, author quoted unique fragments of Faustus, which were not included in the final version of the book.
Journal: Przegląd Rusycystyczny
- Issue Year: 2007
- Issue No: 118
- Page Range: 51-65
- Page Count: 15
- Language: Polish