От «Бега» к «Таракановщине» – и далее. Инсектный дискурс пьесы Михаила Булгакова в литературном контексте конца 1920-х годов
From The Flight to Tarakanovschina and Beyond. nsect Discourse of Mikhail Bulgakov’s Play in the Literary Context of the Late 1920s

Insect Discourse of Mikhail Bulgakov’s Play in the Literary Context of the Late 1920s

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper was to analyze the comedy Tarakanovshchina, which was written by Leo Nikulin and Victor Ardov in the summer of 1928, a few months after Bulgakov’s play The Flight was completed. The authors altered the insects motifs of Bulgakov’s work, pamphletically depicting the Soviet literary environment of the late 1920s and, more broadly, the USSR system and lifestyle as a whole. The allusions field in Tarakanovshchina is not limited to The Flight, the “cockroach” theme is supplemented by “bedbugs” motifs: the comedy parodies Vladimir Mayakovsky’s script Forget the Fireplace, from which his well-known comedy The Bedbug later arose. Moreover, Mayakovsky himself is depicted in Tarakanovshchina in the character of Moscow poet. A comparative analysis proves that many motifs of Tarakanovshchina are resonated with the “literary” line of novel The Master and Margarita (as believed, the beginning of Bulgakov’s work on it dates back to 1928). The problems considered in the Evgenij Jablokov article allow to make the conclusion that Tarakanovshchina was not only a response to the play The Flight. This comedy had to a certain extent influence on the Bulgakov’s concept of “The Novel about the Devil”

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