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War implications in „Moromeţii”

IMPLICAŢII ALE RĂZBOIULUI ÎN ROMANUL „MOROMEŢII”

Author(s): Maria Holhoș / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1/2012

Keywords: war; destiny; collapse; threat; impossible happiness

In some of Marin Preda's epic creations the reader can see a strong approach of happiness by searching the answers to even more complicated questions. The characters' destiny is the answers which awoke in the reader’s soul a feeling of nostalgia. Their soul's collapses are the consequences of the spiritual underdevelopment in which the humanity is , and its effects are worst than the war. These anthologies can explain the presence of the literary motif of the war, that has different meanings: temporary bench mark, malefic seism, triumph, failure, threat etc.

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Celestial Ascensions in Romanian Fairytales

Ascensiuni celeste în basmele româneşti

Author(s): Andra Gabriela Holhoş,Maria Holhoș / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 3/2013

Keywords: mith,faitytale,shadow,mystery; cosmic

In Romanian fairytales, as well as in the universal ones, from those that belong to the Aery ascension, we can distinguish the possibility of the characters getaway from the earth, into the imaginary world by a fantasy . The places to which the characters tend to go seem completely abhorrent: either towards the wonderful goddess zone, pictorial scenery and eternal life, where they hope to accomplish a promise or to receive an award, or towards a darkness zone, full of shades and earth pitch, reminding of the frightening world of the purgatory, in which the character gets guided by the liberator thought for somebody he/she knows. Other times, he is accompanied by a mentor with the aim of discovering the unbelievable dimensions of the evil. That is when the character gets through the initiation journey, getting to know the imaginary world of punishments endured by the ones who do bad things. In fairytales,there frequenly appear situations in which the character tries to elucidate a conflict by detaching himself of the ordinary world, going towards unknown places , wanting to change a destiny, due to an extraordinary personal ability. In this kind of situations, the fairytales offer an interesting imaginary possibility of escaping from terrestrial time and space by going to the enigmatic sidereal world. A condition of the ascension is giving up to the material fortune. Those characters who accomplish that kind of role (of ascension towards another world) alienate themselves from the wish of possessing material values. The character gets to know what poverty means, seen as a symbol of returning to his inner place, a step towards the inner freedom. The condition of entering the never ending celestial world which is the purification, is frequently seen in the fairytales. This is made by interspersion of the rational knowledge with the spiritual one. The knowledge enigmas may be considered an interior existence problems, attempts of the fretful soul of to be or not to be. The human knowledge possibilities tend to be replaced by the presence of the supernatural forces, images that are a real source of the character’s inner force.. The fairytales in which the main character gets the chance to escape from the earth, can be compared to a vertical parable, delimitated by the two formulas: the first one sends us to the beginning paradisiacal world ( can be that illo tempore), and the last one sends us to the apotheosis ( a real wedding) . The stories prolongations affronts the passing of the time, heading towards eternity , by loosing itself somewhere in the future. The ideal acheivment of surpassing his earthly condition is possible only with the help of some miraculous objects . The first category is formed by some trees or plants which grown towards the sky ( walnut, pear, chestnut, oak, beans, peas, cabbage, barley, pumpkin).

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HUMANKIND'S ASPIRATIONS AS REFLECTED IN ROMANIAN LITERARY WORKS

ASPIRAŢII ALE UMANITĂŢII ÎN CREAŢII LITERARE ROMÂNEŞTI

Author(s): Maria Holhoș / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 4/2010

Keywords: life; death; aspirations; limits; ideal

In the folklore texts, as well as in the modern culture, there are prolongations of the reality in the ideal world. Our folklore believes , primarily derived from the Romanian fairytales , convey an organic view of the world , a primitive life order because of its simple structures. The primitive spirit inlays towards the concrete, by having the tendency of localizing some abstract notions on the Earth. It is generally conveyed the terrestrial life, the one which people intensely love, although, sometimes , the metaphysic nostalgia comes up. This way, we are faced with a trip in space and time, opposed to the terrestrial life, outlining a transcendental world , as a far away perspective. In the folklore vision, the human is not tempted to have an adventure in an unknown place. In the collective imaginary world, the cosmos is brought closer, and the human tries to influence and humanize it, treating it as a refuge from the great life flusters, or even a support. We can also observe an innovating characteristic of the folklore creations,including continuous soul flusters, with the help of the ethnic thought. Always enriched, the inherited spiritual order hides some signs of a superior lucidity, of an awareness that bypasses the village’s usual level. These opinions frequently go towards the two cosmos verticals, involving the transcendental , making more acceptable the awareness of his ephemeral life on the Earth. In the folklore texts, there are often seen images that suggest the Earth’s deepness- the death ( the darkness) and the Sky’s highness-the holy world, the eternal spirit.Carefully decoding these images, it may seem as a combination between materiality and spirituality . It can also be seen from the text, a desire of rising towards transcendental , an aspiration to knowing the eternal spirit. On searching the answers to those two big humanty flusters – life and death- it implies the human’s aspirations towards bypassing his own condition. The immortality myth presented in one of the most representatives Romanian fairytales entitled “Youth everlasting and life without end” caught the writer Mircea Eliade’s attention, taking up some of the post-war stories that had a marked fiction character (Les trois Grâces and Youth everlasting and life without end ) the idea of eternal youth. In Eliade’s fairytales, as well as in his cultural texts , there are certain inserted symbols that hand towards anthropology and sometimes towards theology. In the cultural texts, the explanation goes towards shaping the consequences of the original sin in what concerns the human body’s evolution. Moreover, by using terms that refer to Biology and Medicine, Mircea Eliade tries to catch le reader’s attention through an analyses scenario of possible changes concerning the human body’s evolution by the intervention of the science

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Imaginary Spaces in the Fantastic Stories of I. P. Culianu

Spaţii imaginare în povestirile fantastice ale lui I. P. Culianu

Author(s): Andra Gabriela Holhoş,Maria Holhoș / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 3/2014

Keywords: space/non-space, Ioan Petru Culianu’s short stories

In the volume „The Pale Parchment” by Ioan Petru Culianu, there are described some spaces favourable to communication: the exhibition, the museum, the camp, the store etc. Emphasizing the changes in the postmodern society, the author stresses the idea of individual alienation. The places favourable to communication in contemporary society are various, increased in number, improved in comfort and much promoted by mass-media. However, they seem suitable for the emigrant’s or treveller’s soul, who has left his universe willing to fit in some political, economic, spiritual new mentalities, finding clear differences in belonging and identification. The concrete individuality of the spaces described in the fantastic Culian short stories and stories creates the illusion of non-space related to non-time, as instruments of adjustment of individual conscience related to collectivity. In these creation, the laws of the ordinary world seem suspended in the hope of configuration of some solvable dilemas only at certain levels of reality.

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VARIATIONS OF THE INITIATION IN SOLITUDE IN THE GAME OF SELF-KNOWLEDGE AND OF THE REALITY PRESENTED IN PALER’S PROSE

VARIANTE ALE INIȚIERII ÎN SINGURĂTATE ÎN JOCUL CUNOAȘTERII DE SINE ȘI A REALITĂȚII PREZENTE ÎN PROZA PALERIANĂ

Author(s): Maria Holhoș / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 8/2017

Keywords: autobiography; loneliness; maze,; knowledge; solitary;

The long detours to reach the self, mentioned in "Cordial polemics", meant for the writer a maze of the initiations in solitude. The alternative to the analysis of the initiation in loneliness seems to be Philippe Lejeune's proposal in the volume "Autobiographical Pact". Thus, we can identify in Paler's prose instinctive, assumed, imposed or searched pacts.In his descriptions, confessions or meditations, the writer recalls the years of his childhood, always confronting the past with the present, convinced that only in this way the present can be better understood.Preserving his vital connection with "at home"in an emotional manner, full of nostalgia, he actually doomed himself to loneliness. Octavian Paler, for whom progress meant “less loneliness" ("Diary at the Seaside") through the characters' ample angle finds himself, in turns, in the three states of the solitary adventurer: the nostalgic, disillusioned viewer, the moralist and aesthete observer, the involved critical witness DOI: 10.29302/InImag.2017.8.7

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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF IRONY IN THE NOVEL ‘SOME PEASANTS’ BY DINU SARARU

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF IRONY IN THE NOVEL ‘SOME PEASANTS’ BY DINU SARARU

Author(s): Maria Holhoș,Andra Gabriela Holhoş / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 13/2018

Keywords: comical aspects; irony; subjectivity; stylistic mechanism; limits;

Belonging to the literature about traditional village, the novel "Some Peasants" by Dinu Sararu deals with atopic typical of postwar rural environment, namely, forced collectivism done with the brutal involvement of political security services. The writer manages to give the events a symbolic meaning, proving himself to be a subtle and refined observer of the village, understanding with the same subtlety the significance of the peasants' phrases. Although the approached topic is extremely serious, the writer inserts comical aspects, the main tendency being that of irony. In this novel, irony frequently points out the discrepancy between reality and the ideal, sometimes it generates contrasts and in some cases it proves to be the mark of the author's subjectivity. As far as the construction technique is concerned, irony stays within the limits of the two coordinates: the mechanism involved in the construction of the global meaning of the work or the stylistic mechanism. The characters of this novel as far as irony is concerned, fall under a relationship of solidarity, connected by common feelings and awareness, a mark of shared laughter, complicity being involved, or a relationship of rivalry, in this case irony is excluded, ridiculing certain members of a group, a criterion specific to challenging. Irony is associated in this novel with other forms of the comic, thus getting the scornful laughter or the small thankful smile, proving the fact that irony can be multi-directional or sarcastic.

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ANOTHER POLIPHONY OF COLOURS AND SPACES IN BACOVIA’S POETRY

ANOTHER POLIPHONY OF COLOURS AND SPACES IN BACOVIA’S POETRY

Author(s): Maria Holhoș,Andra Gabriela Holhoş / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 10/2017

Keywords: simbolism; autentic; complementaritate; spațiu; culoare;

Bacovia's work ranges within the evolution of Romanian symbolism reached at its maturity having Al. Macedonski, Mircea Demetriad, Traian Demetrescu, Stefan Petica, Dimitrie Anghel, Ovid Densusianu, Ion Minulescu as reference points. Bacovian works constitute the fourth stage, the stage of authentic symbolism, and the use of authentic and spontaneous symbols, of chromatic suggestions through intermediary hues in order to preserve the idea of impression, the conversion of musical instruments into poetical motifs as well as the special expressive structures create a specific unique universe. Bacovian lyrics continue to impress through the poet's effort to adopt a direct language with meaningful values capable of rendering human experience, be it at a certain period of life or overwhelmed by a sinister usually irremediable mood. In poetry, the bacovian atmosphere distinguishes itself through the harmony of inner and outside scenery and above all through the complementarity of space and colour.

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Ion Agarbiceanu - moments in the Romanian society around The Great Union

ION AGÂRBICEANU – MOMENTE DIN SOCIETATEA ROMÂNEASCĂ ÎN PREAJMA MARII UNIRI

Author(s): Maria Holhoș,Andra Gabriela Holhoş / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 2/2018

Keywords: Romanian society; anxieties; willingness; soul; reality;

Contemporary with the political events that took place on Romanian territory at the beginning of the 20th century, major events of vital importance in the evolution of the Romanian nation, Ion Agarbiceanu, cultural personality established by his contributions to "Astra" and "The Romanian Writers' Society", militates in favour of the accomplishment of the secular national ideal through his publications. His academic and political experience helps him understand and involve in the difficult moments in the country's destiny. Endowed with a special creative energy he creates an ample "chronicle" of Romanian contemporary society at the beginning of the century. The trilogy "Times and People. New World (1943, the first two books "Home" and "On Roads" had been censored), brought down to a single volume, was published during his refuge in Sibiu, when the Writer withdrew for a period from public life, period appreciated later on by literary critics for the writer's important writings. The common element of these writings is the beginning of the narrative thread that stands under the dome of the Union. The realities of the epoch were rendered with sobriety, with the awareness and willingness to convey the anxieties of society, even if sometimes they were not wrapped in "art transfiguration" but resignation. Rich in ongoing events, the texts of this trilogy sustain "the historical" through the power of generalization, and the confrontations in the political world are often pointed out by emphasizing their errors and consequences on social and ethical levels, specifying the Transylvanian environment, through different aspects of the Romanian soul and love for people. The striking character is sustained by the immediate reality emphasized by the writer, by the abundance of details to the detriment of subtlety, of heavy narration and psychological analysis. It can be regarded as an anticipation of modernism in prose, materialized in the diminishing of harmony and musicality of the text, rendering his characters' " rhythm of the soul movement".

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Versions of initiation in solitude through the game of self-knowledge and reality in Paler’s prose

Variante ale inițierii în singurătate în jocul cunoașterii de sine și a realității prezente în proza paleriană

Author(s): Andra Gabriela Holhoş,Maria Holhoș / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 9/2018

Keywords: autobiography; loneliness; maze; knowledge; solitary;

The long detours to reach the self mentioned in “Cordial polemics” represented for the writer possibilities of initiation in solitude. The alternative to the analysis of the initiation in loneliness seems to be Philippe Lejeune's proposal in the volume “Autobiographical Pact”. Thus, we can identify in Paler's prose instinctive, assumed, imposed or searched pacts.In his descriptions, confessions or meditations, the writer recalls the years of his childhood, always confronting the past with the present, convinced that this is the only way towards a better understanding of the present. By preserving his vital connection with “at home” in an emotional manner, full of nostalgia, he actually dooms himself to loneliness. Through the characters’ ample angle, for whom progress means “less loneliness” (“Diary at the Sea side”) Octavian Paler finds himself, in turns, in the three states of the solitary adventurer: the nostalgic, disillusioned viewer, the moralist and aesthete observer, the involved critical witness.

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The significance of irony in the novel Some peasants, by Dinu Săraru

Semnificații ale ironiei în romanul Niște țărani, de Dinu Săraru

Author(s): Maria Holhoș / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 04/2019

Keywords: irony; mechanism involved; stylistic mechanism; multi-directional; sarcastic;

As far as the construction technique is concerned, irony stays within the limits of the two coordinates: the mechanism involved in the construction of the global meaning of the work or the stylistic mechanism. The characters of this novel as far as irony is concerned, fall under a relationship of solidarity, connected by common feelings and awareness, a mark of shared laughter, complicity being involved, or a relationship of rivalry, in this case irony is excluded, ridiculing certain members of a group, a criterion specific to challenging. Irony is associated in this novel with other forms of the comic, thus getting the scornful laughter or the small thankful smile, proving the fact that irony can be multi-directional or sarcastic.

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Space dimensions in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Hobbit

Dimensiuni ale spațiului în Hobbitul de J.R.R. Tolkien

Author(s): Andra Gabriela Holhoş,Maria Holhoș / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 11/2020

Keywords: supernatural/fantasy; space; self-discovery journey; spirit of adventure; mystery; friends;

In the first half of the 20th century, J.R.R. Tolkien addresses through his novel The Hobbit to people of all ages willing to imagine a different world. The mythological universe skillfully and patiently created becomes a quest into a world called Middle Earth. The volume impresses by the majesty of the supernatural world created, by the uniqueness of the characters engaged in a self-discovery journey, by the intense action decorated with a refreshing comic. The writer makes use of the northern mythology enhancing the mystery of the supernatural which alternates bright and wonderful realms with ones filled with secrets and darkness. Although Bilbo Baggins is quiet by nature and a comfort lover, he falls under the spell of a different world which enables him to discover his adventurous side/spirit along with strange beings ( trolls, elves, giant spiders, orcas, goblins, evil wolves or wargs, forest spirits, wood-elves, Beorn), as well as with many friends endowed with moral values.

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ZULEIHA DESCHIDE OCHII [ZULEIKHA OPENS HER EYES]) – AN EXOTERIC AND ESOTERIC NOVEL

ZULEIHA DESCHIDE OCHII – UN ROMAN EXOTERIC ȘI ESOTERIC

Author(s): Maria Holhoș,Andra Gabriela Holhoş / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 2/2020

Keywords: life; deportation; colony; love, sacrifice;

The writer of Tatar origin Guzel Iahina through her novel „Zuleiha opens her eyes” launches a disturbing plea for life in Russian literature. The fimale caracter, Zuleiha, an obidient young wife from a Tatar village from Kazan region, overwhelmed by the decisions of an older husband and a dominating mother-in-law, lives in a relatively comfortable exterior world. She observes the local costums, the rituals and traditions her mother taught her as a child. She comunicates only with the local spirits, with mythological beings, seemingly living in an imaginary world, stoically accepting her destiny and the unwritten laws inherited from the ancestors. The social and the political transformations brought about by the coming of the communist regim, the deportation to Siberia, the life in the colony - a place where she becomes both the witness and the victim of the grotesque brutalization around her - coagulate in a proces of the distruction of the old order. The deeply rooted conceptions will take the shape of her mather-in-law, becoming a threat of punishment for their inobservance. Her mother-in-law’s ghost seemingly brings her a message of indulgence for the enormous maternal sacrifice: determined to pay any price in order to save her son Iusuf, she helps him escape from the colony. Thus Zuleiha, through the love for her son, brings back the MAN in the light of conscience.

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From Mythology to the Fiction Games in the Novel Prevestirea [The Omen] by Ioana Parvulescu

DE LA MITOLOGIE LA JOCURILE FICȚIUNII IN ROMANUL PREVESTIREA, DE IOANA PARVULESCU

Author(s): Maria Holhoș,Andra Gabriela Holhoş / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 2/2021

Keywords: prophet; myth; time journey; voices; omen;

The novel The Omen is set within a time journey having as a starting point the eighth century BC and proves itself a captivating mythical drama. The main character is inspired by the biblical prophet Iona from the Old Testament. The biblical texts directly referring to this apparently insignificant prophet are scarce. What gives substance to the novel is the author’s effort to offer the reader the background and spirit of the epoch. The particularity of the novel is given by the sequencing of the events narrated by the story-tellers followers of the prophet, starting with his daughter Esther, and continuing with his granddaughter Hulda followed by other descendants for several centuries. The author’s ingenuity is proved by the use of those voices, vaguely sketched entities, by means of which the thread of the story is conveyed over ages. An artifice in the narrative strategy is the outlet from the time of the story and the time of the story-telling: some discretely mentioned details draw the reader’s attention to the fact that he left behind the ancient events and finds himself in the Middle Ages, then in the interwar period, and later even in the present technological era of internet and mobile cell phones. Dominated by the biblical myth with spiritual, philosophical, esthetic stakes, this novel can be considered a warning for the ever more desacralized society, often facing the struggle for survival, a fact illustrated even by the time of the publishing of the literary work, whose title gets an anticipatory value.

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Guzel Iahina’s “My Children” – The Back and Forth Voyage of the Character in the Literary Space

Guzel Iahina, „Copiii de pe Volga” - „Dus-întors”, rute ale personajului în spațiul literar

Author(s): Andra Gabriela Holhoş,Maria Holhoș / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 12/2021

Keywords: space; journey or route; back and forth; reality;imaginary;

Jakob Ivanovici Bach, the main character of the novel “My Children” by Guzel Iahina, impresses the reader by the dominant back and forth journeys made in the evolution of the action. Gradually, the novel combines representations of concrete geographic realities with spaces situated under the grand impact of imaginary. It passes from the factual, olfactory, auditory or visual reality to an imaginary geography reflected on a troubled historical period that is the beginning of bolshevism. Bach, a German teacher in Gnadental, a colony on the bank of the river Volga, helped by a remarkable emotional trait of his nature, lives in a certain special way his reference to space. Tormented by the desire to have his own space, an absolute refuge, far away from any external threat, he is forced to spend most of his life on back and forth journeys in order to survive. The space structures of the novel can be perceived in their multidimensional aspect through those departures and coming-backs materialized in: routine travel, travel of adjustment to a fairy tale realm, travel of returning to the native space, of acceptance of an unknown space, travel to discover the space metamorphosis or an uncompleted travel.

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TEMPORAL ALTERNATIONS IN THE FICTION GAME OF THE NOVEL THE MASTER AND MARGARITA, BY MIHAIL BULGAKOV

ALTERNANȚE TEMPORALE ÎN JOCUL FICȚIUNII DIN ROMANUL „MAESTRUL ȘI MARGARETA”, DE MIHAIL BULGAKOV

Author(s): Maria Holhoș,Andra Gabriela Holhoş / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1/2022

Keywords: transitory; conscience; drama; outdatet; maze;

The novel, although in appearance seems symmetrical, proves to be an intricate maze of alternations of time segments. Moments of the penetration and consolidation of communism in the cultural muscovite structures alternates with those occurred almost two thousand years ago, the trial and conviction of Ha-Nozri (Iisus Hristos) to death by crucifixion. The time of the narration is placed during The Holy Week, and lasts only a few days, from Wednesday to Saturday. The novel focuses on the existential issues filtered through the character’s own conscience. The significances are inferred from the conflicts of ideas dominating the content giving it a satirical tint. The discrete, persistent jewelry is captivating and draws the reader’s attention to the philosophical under layer completed by the drama of the intellectual seeking for knowledge. The beauty of this structural filigree sustained by outdate triggers a permanent reflexive attitude in the reader.

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SUPERNATURAL CREATURES AND HARDSHIPS IN SURPASSING A THRESHOLD IN ROMANIAN FAIRY TALES

CREATURI FANTASTICE ȘI DIFICULTĂȚILE TRECERII UNUI PRAG ÎN BASMELE ROMÂNEȘTI

Author(s): Maria Holhoș,Andra Gabriela Holhoş / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 13/2022

Keywords: fantastic; hyperbolic; confrontation; good; evil; creatures;

In the Romanian fantastic fairy tales volumes “Fata răpită de Soare” (The Girl Kidnapped by the Sun), “Frumoasa Lumii” (The Beauty of the World) and “Inimă Putredă” (Rotten Heart), belonging to the I. Oprișan collection, several imaginary creatures from the earth, the air and the water can be identified. These creatures’ shapes and characteristics acquire fantastic dimensions and features, and their presence in the structure of the fairy tale marks a symbolic threshold. The human character in a crisis meets a numen being who mediates the passing from here to there, to the other realm. Thus, one passes from a familiar space to a contrasting, timeless one, representing a way towards self-knowledge. There will be confrontations in a fictional world with evil presences or benefic entities. Both in the ascendant and descendant spatial structures, the characteristics of the imaginary creatures usually get hyperbolic dimensions, thus increasing the suspence and emphasizing the dominant features.

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DILEMMAS OF DESPAIR IN THE NOVEL THE TRAIN TO SAMARKAND, BY GUZEL IAHINA

DILEME ALE DISPERĂRII ÎN ROMANUL TRENUL SPRE SAMARKAND, DE GUZEL IAHINA

Author(s): Maria Holhoș,Andra Gabriela Holhoş / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 14/2023

Keywords: despair; famine; plague; humaneness; salvation;

The vast Soviet lands, shattered by the Civil War and the unbearable consequences of requisitions, are overwhelmed by the famine triggered in the third decade of the last century. The mission received by the young man Deev to take by a sanitary improvised train five hundred children from a haunted by famine orphanage in Kazanul Popolgiei, to Samarkand seems a utopia. This journey through time and space, sustained by facts and historical documents, has a family connection with the author of the novel: her paternal grandfather was in an orphanage and belonged to a group of children transported towards Turkestan on such a train of hope. The polyphony of the voices and feelings of some generations marked by famine is rendered in literature, thus trying to avoid wrapping in silence histories of injustice. The prismatic narrative structure of the novel combines the unilateral perspectives of the characters in a sequence of interior monologues, confessions and authentic complementary selfanalyses. The prevailing feeling of permaomunismului nent danger through the entire journey is sometimes faded away by unexpected moments of tenderness, other times by unconfessed love, by unexpected gestures of solidarity, sometimes culminating with unimaginable efforts and personal sacrifices. The orphan children’s traumas, abandoned by their parents or not understood are amplified by absolute evil unexpectedly appearing under different forms: famine, plague, treason, crime. The struggle for survival turns into a struggle for salvation of souls, thus alternating the moments of darkness with the moments of light. The novel can be considered an endless echo of questions and answers for all those who have been overwhelmed by famine despair.

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THE REPREZENTATION OF MOSCOW URBAN REALITY IN THE NOVEL THE MASTER AND MARGARITA ’BY MIHAIL BULGAKOV. THE MAGIC HAVIG A CORECTIVE ROL

REPREZENTAREA REALITĂȚII URBANE MOSCOVITE ÎN ROMANUL MAESTRUL ȘI MARGARETA DE MIHAIL BULGAKOV. MAGICUL CU ROL CORECTIV

Author(s): Maria Holhoș,Andra Gabriela Holhoş / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 2/2024

Keywords: supernatural; urban spaces; real; unreal; magic;

The inclusion of the supernatural in Moscow's urban spaces (flats, restaurants, theater halls, the writer’s house, office) is meant to enhance the understanding of reality in its paradoxical nature. The boundary between the real and the unreal blurs due to the integration of opposing categories within the novel, aiming to reveal the complexity of the contemporary world. The inclusion of magic within real spaces, the sudden shifts between reality and imagination, and the metamorphosis of elements from one state to another support the syncretic nature of The Master and Margarita and Mikhail Bulgakov’s approach of maintaining a make-believe tone in recounting events through authorial reluctance. The text’s subtleties allow the author to express both personal and social critiques.

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