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Любовный сюжет в Мастере и Маргарите
Love Story in Bulgakov’s the Master and Margarita

Author(s): Piotr Fast
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Novel, Russian Literature, Philology
Published by: Polskie Towarzystwo Rusycytyczne
Keywords: Master and Margarita;Bulgakov;Love plot; Russian literature

Summary/Abstract: In this paper the history of love between the protagonists of Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margherita was described as a phenomenon mirroring some conventional patterns typical of mass-audience fiction. According to the Author, the abovementioned history contains — both in its plot and in the cultural conventions it refers to — many clichés typically present in love stories being the structural core of the plot of mass-audience culture. Even the final fate of the Bulgakov’s protagonists was derived from that source being actually an idyllic culmination of the plot leading towards an emotional entropy.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 163
  • Page Range: 230-242
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Russian