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Titre Une cure de fantastique ou Mikhail Boulgakov
Auteur Georges Nivat
Mir@bel Revue Cahiers du monde russe
Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique
Numéro volume 24, no 3, juillet-septembre 1983 L'avant-garde russe : un dossier
Rubrique / Thématique
Essai
Page 247-259
Résumé anglais Georges Nivat, A cure by the fantastic or Mikhail Bulgakov. The author takes stock of the principal interpretations of The master and Margaret the number of which greatly increased in the course of these last years. He adopts first of all the view according to which the work in question is a novel with a "mytho- logistic trend" that is a sum of mythologèmes destined to reflect the repetitive nature of human history (to which corresponds the fundamental weariness of Bulgakov when faced with history). The "apocryphization" of history is also one of the main elements of the book intended to fight any form of canonization. The incomplete plot, the appeal to Pushkin's refuge - neither hell nor paradise - are characteristic of this quest for rest within a world where no one is really settled. The article ends by a summary of neonationaiist interpretations of Bulgakov in the present-day USSR.
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